I am marching because I am furious and heartbroken at the same time. I will not stand by and allow the environmental, social, and economic gains we’ve made in this country be decimated by this incoming administration.  As a woman with a disability, the mother of children with disabilities, advocate of persons with disabilities and protector of MY country’s increasingly fragile democracy, lend my heart, hands, voice, and mind to the resistance and march proudly with my sisters in this historic march.  We will not back down and we will never go away.

I am 57 and call Upstate New York my home.  I am an Adirondack kayaker, a grandmother, textile artist, quilter, and civil rights activist with a disability and an attitude.