Disabled by polio at age 2, Cyndi Jones draws on 40 years of experience as an advocate for disability rights. As publisher, she has directed the growth of MAINSTREAM from a four-page local newsletter to a four-color glossy national magazine serving people with disabilities.
She has been active nationally as a member of the National Advisory Board of the National Center for Medical Rehabilitation Research, a participant in Project Foresight on rehab equipment in the health care market, as a member of a panel of experts for long-range planning for the National Institute on Disability and Rehabilitation Research (NIDRR), as a participant in the Disability Rights Leadership Conference in 1986.
In addition, Cyndi Jones interviewed President Bush on disability issues, and has given speeches to a wide variety of groups, including the NISH-sponsored Disability Employment Leadership Roundtable in 1994, the USC School of Administration's Reahabilitating the Rehab Act conference in 1991, the FutureShow conference in 1991, and the 1990 USC-sponsored program on Individual Initiatives Toward Independence.
Cyndi Jones brings to the table a wide-ranging as well as first -hand knowledge of disability experience. She provides articulate and insightful analysis of assistive technology from a consumer perspective.
Contact her at PUBLISHER at mainstream-mag.com
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