If Eileen Grubba’s name isn’t familiar, there’s a reason. She’s built a strong television career playing edgy characters in shows like Game of Silence, Sons of Anarchy, The Mentalist and HBO’s Hung, plus others. Her thespian roots stretch back to Atlanta and New York, where she acted in musicals, plays, commercials and independent films. A lifetime member of the renowned Actors Studio, she’s been compared to theater greats Geraldine Page and Kim Stanley ..read more

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On April 8, 2024, Attorney General Merrick B. Garland today signed a final rule under Title II of the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) to ensure the accessibility of web content and mobile applications (apps) for people with disabilities. This final rule clarifies the obligations of state and local governments to make their websites and mobile applications accessible. Every day, people across the country use the web and mobile apps to access public programs and services, including emergency information, courts, healthcare providers, schools, voting information, parking, permit applicatio ..read more

The Segerstrom Center for the Arts, located in Costa Mesa, California, is a renowned performing arts complex that opened in 1986. It offers a broad range of world-class performances and innovative education and training programs like the American Ballet Theatre School. The Center is home to multiple performance and concert venues that incorporate a wide range of accessibility services to accommodate various disabilities. The Center offers assistive listening devices, braille programs, large print programs, binoculars, Open Captioning, ASL Interpretation, Audio Description, sensory friendly b ..read more

Most of us know Sue Ann Pien as the character “Violet,” on Amazon’s comedy-drama series, “As We See It,” that portrays three- 20-something adults on the autism spectrum who share an apartment in LA. For this role, Pien landed nominations for Best Lead Performance in a New Series at both the Film Independent’s Spirit Awards and the Gotham Awards. ABILITY’s Chet Cooper met with Pien over Zoom where they chatted about Pien’s early life and how being on the autism spectrum led her to acting and, later, directing. They discussed Pien’s diverse array of interests, from the down-to-earth, authentic ..read more

“Most Likely Not To…” is a-first-of-its-kind musical comedy centered around the difficulties of traveling with a disability. The musical was created in collaboration with members of the SMA (spinal muscular atrophy) community and the SMA My Way program founded by Genentech, a biotechnology company dedicated to discovering and developing medicine for people with serious and life-threatening diseases. ABILITY Magazine’s Jennifer Woodall was joined in a virtual interview with Genentech’s Adam Pryor, creative director of the show, and singer-songwriter James Ian to discuss living with SMA, prepa ..read more

Poet, visual artist and educator Christina Turczyn has been reflecting keenly on the world around her for most of her life. Water runs through her paintings—they’re watercolors, after all—and through her poems, too, lending a fluid quality to her recurring themes: human endurance through violence, dislocation and disease; technology’s capacity to link and sunder, efface and re-record; and the cool witness borne to it all by the natural world. A self-proclaimed “student of her students” and relentless observer of both natural and human phenomena, Christina lives in New Jersey, where she conti ..read more

Whenever she’s not tending to her duties as an art director for The Integer Group, web designer and accessibility advocate Amy Pedid devotes her time to building the Unibility. Undertaken as a passion project, the website will serve as a free, centralized database of digital resources for web designers, persons with disabilities and anyone else who wants to make the internet a more accessible place. “The world will be better when everyone embraces universal design,” she said, “and when designers like myself realize the power we have to transform the lives of billions of people around the glob ..read more

One year from today, an astroid known as The End III will collide with earth and destroy everything on it. FAKE NEWS of course, but let’s pretend for just a moment that it was true.             How would you react? What would you do if you found out your future was not going to be as you expected? How would you live your remaining days on earth? How would you prepare for the end? Would you max out your credit cards and throw a millionaire style mega party? Would you lock yourself in your house, draw all the shades and hide in the corner ..read more

It’s Human Resources Here to Inform You that Your Accommodations Request Was Approved. And You Got a Raise? Also, Your Childhood Crush Just Moved Back to Town and Wants to Grab a Bite? Dear employee, We are delighted to inform you that your request for reasonable accommodations has been approved. Effective immediately, you can work your requested hours remotely, and your on-site office space has already been modified with the adaptive equipment you need. We also threw in a cabinet full of your favorite snacks as a little bonus. Upon reviewing your employee record, we’ve additionally decided ..read more