Kathi Wolfe

“No one in America should ever be afraid to walk down the street holding the hands of the person they love,” President Obama movingly said. “No one in America should be forced to look over their shoulder because of who they are, or because they live with a disability.”read more

Though Keller worked for 44 years with the American Foundation for the Blind, her social concern was far from limited to people with disabilities. “My work for the blind … has never occupied a center in my personality,” she wrote. “My sympathies are with all who struggle for justice.”read more

Though I’m legally blind, I love watching “Saturday Night Live,” the show that so deftly satirizes politics and culture. But I was appalled when SNL veered from satire into cruelty in a skit ridiculing New York Gov. David Paterson’s blindness.read more

There are 51 million Americans with disabilities, according to the U.S. Census Bureau.

In this presidential campaign, the candidates have an opportunity to pay more than lip service to our issues. I hope they will seize it.read more

July is Disability Pride Month, and this year we who are disabled have something to be proud of.read more

On May 1, Congress did something admirable. It passed the first civil rights law of the 21st century: the Genetic Information Nondiscrimination Act.read more

Growing up legally blind, I never imagined that anyone like me would become a top political leader. But now David A. Paterson has been sworn in as this country’s first blind governor.read more

Historic milestones don’t occur very often, but Nov. 7 was a watershed day for people like me — lesbians, gay men and bisexuals.
The House of Representatives on that day passed the Employment Non-Discrimination Act, a bill offering protection against workplace discrimination based on sexual orientation.read more

October 25, 2006

Growing up legally blind, I never dreamed people like me would campaign for -- and win -- political office. But people with disabilities are doing just that.read more

September 9, 2005

Katrina discriminated not only against the poor and the black, but the disabled, too. The image of a dead, discarded person in a wheelchair at the Superdome will long be with me and others with disabilities. So, too, will the story of St. Rita's nursing home. At St. Rita's, 20 miles southeast of downtown New Orleans, 32 of the home's roughly 60 residents died in the building, The New York Times reported. The residents were not evacuated.read more