
Disability Pride Month
Honoring our Roots. Celebrating our Future.

July 29th
12:00 PM - 5:00 PM at Ed Roberts Campus
3075 Adeline St, Berkeley, CA 94703

Judith Heumann with angel wings sitting in her wheelchair - Artwork by CIL Board Member Krystina Wray Jackson
Join us for a day of music, performance, disability rights and justice history, vendors, food, crafts, and kids activities in honor of some of the founding members and staff of the CIL and to celebrate the CIL staff and Board of today.
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Participate in creating a Memorial Display: Art table at which people can make memorial pieces to place on a memorial display and memorial candles for an ancestor with disabilities who they want to create a candle in honor of to take home.
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Enjoy DJs and Performers
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Learn Disability Rights & Justice History: Meet activists, artists, and other changemakers with disabilities through role plays by staff and young CIL consumers.
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Sit down for a movie screening: Watch short films on changemakers with disabilities across different sectors, backgrounds, and experiences.
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Kid's Corner: Crafts, balloon art, face painting, activities, snacks, and prizes.
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Exhibited Art & Art Vendors: Enjoy and purchase art and crafts from artists and vendors with disabilities.
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We will provide ASL interpreters, childcare, food, quiet space and masks for all participants (masks will be required).
If you have any questions, contact Sara Kershnar at skershnar@centerforindependentliving.org
CIL Memorial List
(People who worked at CIL and/or were instrumental in its work, from its founding through the mid/late 1970s. Current through May 22, 2023.)
Compiled by Ken Stein
Bob Allamand
Tom Avilla
Betty Bacon
Jan Balter
Shelley Bergum
Don Berry
Dr. Sheldon Berroll
Edna Brean
Anna Broaddus
Charlie Brown
Doug Brown
Mary Brown
Phil Chavez
Catherine Caulfield
Paul Church
Chuck Cole
Kitty Cone
Dale Dahl
Linda Davis
Nancy D'Angelo
Chris (Pocock) Domingo
Phil Draper
Kari Eells
Charlotte Ferris
Olin Fortney
Molly Fredericks
Adina Friedman
Sid Fry
Don Galloway
F.R. (Rocky) Gomez
Sharon Hamner
John Hessler
Judith (Judy) Heumann
Mary Ann Hiserman
Joyce Jackson
Neil Jacobson
Steven Handler Klein
Howie Harp
Hal Kirshbaum
Johnnie Lacy
David Landes
Larry Langdon
Peter Leech
Brad Lomax
Scott Luebking
Neil Marcus
Michele Martin
John McLaughlin, presumed / Thailand tsunami 2004.
Earl McKeever
Bob Metz
Mary Elyn O'Grady
Susan O’Hara
Mary Jane Owen
Clem Oishi
Michael Pachovas
Carmen Paz Anderson
Laura Rauscher
Dan Read
Ed Roberts
Kathy Roberts
Randy Roberts
Jack Rowan
Mariana Ruybalid
Greg Sanders
Dick Santos
Dottie SantaPaul
Si Shodel
A.J. Smaldone
Greg Smith
Sandra Thaler
Lynn Kidder Tijerina
Peter Trier
Ron Washington
Cece Weeks
Wally Whelan
Celeste White
Willie Winocur
Michael Winter
Jerry Wolf
Ray Zanella
Hale Zukas