Interview with Kara Ayers, August 3, 2022
Project: Disabled in Kentucky Oral History Project
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Kara Ayers, PhD, is a wheelchair and service dog user with Osteogenesis Imperfecta (OI) who is from Frankfort, KY, but now lives in Cincinnati, where she is the Associate Director of the University of Cincinnati’s University Center for Excellence in Developmental Disabilities. She also runs Mind Ramps Media, an organization that consults on accessibility, particularly online. In this interview, she discusses her disability work and her perspectives on disability community and needs in Kentucky and globally.Interview Accession
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Ayers, Kara Interview by Mack Thompson. 03 Aug. 2022. Lexington, KY: Louie B. Nunn Center for Oral History, University of Kentucky Libraries.
Ayers, K. (2022, August 03). Interview by M. Thompson. Disabled in Kentucky Oral History Project. Louie B. Nunn Center for Oral History, University of Kentucky Libraries, Lexington.
Ayers, Kara, interview by Mack Thompson. August 03, 2022, Disabled in Kentucky Oral History Project, Louie B. Nunn Center for Oral History, University of Kentucky Libraries.
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