Valerie Vivona and Maureen Fitzgerald
Recorded
November 25, 2014
Archived
November 25, 2014
37:24 minutes
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Id:
sfb003017
Description
Valerie Vivona (61) and Maureen Fitzgerald (62) talk about their experiences in the disability community. Valerie describes her childhood experiences, coming to Berkeley as a young adult, getting her first power wheelchair, and what she is most proud of in her work. Maureen shares about moving to Berkeley, working at The Center for Independent Living, becoming involved in the disability community and what she is most proud of in her work.Subject Log / Time Code
VV describes staying with Judy Heumann on her first trip to the Bay Area, she also describes first using a power wheelchair
VV shares about being in elementary school as a child living with disabilities
VV talks about what it felt like to find community at the Women's Health Collective
VV describes what she is most proud of with a project at the East Bay Innovations
VV talks about what she would like to leave behind
MF shares about how she got involved in the disability community through working at The Center for Independent Living
MF talks about meeting Dale Dahl at work and how their relationship developed
MF describes being an activist working for social justice
MF shares about what she is most proud of - being a part of the Disability Awareness Program at Yosemite
MF shares one of her poems
Participants
- Valerie Vivona
- Maureen Fitzgerald