Josie Badger

Josie Badger is the co-director at the national RAISE Center.[1] She is active and engaged in the Pittsburgh disability rights community.[2]

Education

Badger co-founded a community service club at age 12 to train service dogs for those with disabilities.[3][4] Badger earned her degree in Disability Law and Advocacy from Geneva College in 2007.[5][6][2] She received her graduate degree in Rehabilitation Counseling from the University of Pittsburgh and later earned her doctorate in Healthcare Ethics at Duquesne University in 2014.[7] Badger is one of eight people in the world born with a rare form of the genetic disorder muscular dystrophy.[8]

Career

Badger worked on Launching Into Adulthood: An Integrated Response to Support Transition of Youth With Chronic Health Conditions and Disabilities, a project of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. She co-founded the Pennsylvania Youth Leadership Network and the Children's Hospital Advisory Network for Guidance and Empowerment, serving as president and vice-president, and also was served as president and vice president of the National Youth Leadership Network.[7][9][10] She has been recognized as an advocate on behalf of those with disabilities.[11][12]

Badger is the Youth Director at The Parent Education & Advocacy Leadership Center and co-director of the national Rehabilitation Services Administration Parent Training and Information Center technical assistance center. She is the author of the TedxPittsburgh talk "Exceptional by Choice".[7] She filed a suit against Preit Associates, LP for violating the Americans with Disabilities Act on January 3, 2017.[13]

Awards
  • Athena Young Professional Award (2015)[7]
  • Ms. Wheelchair America (2011)[14][15][16]

References
  1. "Josie Badger – PEAL Center". pealcenter.org. Retrieved 2017-10-09.
  2. Duquesne University (2014-03-20). "Overcoming the Odds". Adventures on the Bluff!. Retrieved 2017-10-09.
  3. Jackson, AL (2017). Glamour et. al. CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform. p. 747. ISBN 978-1973722366.
  4. Educational law and legislation (2003). Information Legislative Service, Volume 41, Issues 1-16. Pennsylvania School Boards Association. p. 291.
  5. University of Pittsburgh. "Josie Badger, PhD". www.lend.pitt.edu. Retrieved 2017-10-09.
  6. "Advocates push back against wage limits under disability". Pittsburgh Post-Gazette. Retrieved 2017-10-09.
  7. "Josie Badger". www.duq.edu. Retrieved 8 October 2017.
  8. "RAISE Center Staff". 9 November 2015. Retrieved 8 October 2017.
  9. The school counselor's guide to helping students with disabilities. Marshak, Laura E. (1st ed.). San Francisco: Jossey-Bass. 2010. ISBN 9780470175798. OCLC 401168824.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: others (link)
  10. Cato, Jason (October 15, 2012). "City Serves as Main Course for One Young World". Highbeam. Archived from the original on 2017-10-17. Retrieved October 16, 2017.
  11. Smydo, Joe (November 1, 2013). "Activists for Those with Intellectual Disabilities to Be Lauded". Pittsburgh Post-Gazette. Retrieved October 17, 2017.
  12. Ma, Annie (May 5, 2015). "Advocates Push for More Progress Young Adults with Disabilities Say Ada Made Difference in Their Lives". Pittsburgh Post-Gazette. Retrieved October 17, 2017.
  13. Josie Badger vs Preit Associates, LP, United States District Court for the Western District of Pennsylvania. Filed January 3, 2017. Document 19, Case 2:16-cv-01431-MRH-RCM, https://www.gpo.gov/fdsys/pkg/USCOURTS-pawd-2_16-cv-01431/pdf/USCOURTS-pawd-2_16-cv-01431-0.pdf
  14. "Pittsburgher Josie Badger is Ms. Wheelchair America". Pittsburgh Post-Gazette. Retrieved 8 October 2017.
  15. Rearick, Lauren. "The sky is the limit for Josie Badger". Ellwood City Ledger. Retrieved 2017-10-08.
  16. Benz, Kate (September 3, 2012). "Living, Independently". Pittsburgh Tribune-Review. Highbeam. Archived from the original on 2017-10-17. Retrieved October 16, 2017.
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