CDCI Podcast
Green Mountain Disability Stories is a monthly show where Vermonters with disabilities and their families, share conversations about their experiences living with disabilities in the Green Mountain State of Vermont.
You can subscribe to the show on our YouTube channel, on the Spotify app, and on Apple Podcasts.
Green Mountain Disability Stories is a production of the University of Vermont Center on Disability & Community Inclusion (CDCI).
Latest Episodes
Amy Rixon of the Kelly Brush Foundation, and Julia Vitale, from Vermont Crag and Petra Cliffs climbing gym join occupational therapist Catherine Armani-Munn. They talk about the various options for outdoor and indoor recreation for Vermonters with disabilities.
In this episode of the show, we welcome artist and photographer Karen J. Lloyd. She talks with Inclusive Arts Vermont’s Heidi Swevens about coming to terms with incorporating disability into her identity, how Lyme Disease changed her life, and a painting by Lloyd that is part of Inclusive Arts Vermont’s CYCLES exhibit.
Cosmo Duncan is about to graduate from high school, in Burlington, Vermont, and embark on his life as an adult. Cosmo, who has Down Syndrome, sits down to talk with his mom, Scarlett Duncan, and occupational therapist Catherine Armani-Munn. They talk about what life has been like for the family in Vermont, Cosmo’s new business, and some important differences between life in rural and urban Vermont.
Kate Adams is an Indigenous Vermont artist with multiple disabilities, and in this episode of the show, she sits down with CDCI Academics Coordinator Winnie Looby. They talk about Kate’s work with her horses on disability and trauma, the messages carried by geese, and Kate’s life as an artist with ADHD.
Vermont-based physical therapist Katy Gamelin talks with CDCI’s very own Jackie Feiss about her experience of having POTS: Postural Orthostatic Tachycardia Syndrome.
