Ali Stroker made history by becoming the first actor in a wheelchair to win the Tony Award for featured actress in a musical for her performance as Ado Annie in an edgy revival of “Oklahoma!” Stroker, who has paralysis stemming from injuries she sustained in a car accident when she was 2, previously made history as the first Broadway actor who uses a wheelchair in a 2015 run of the musical “Spring Awakening.”
Delaware law enforcement officers will participate in the 33rd Annual Statewide Law Enforcement Torch Run for Special Olympics Delaware next week leading up to the Summer Games, which start June 14. The run will involve more than 500 officers and span 160 miles.
This feature story highlights the internship and employment preparation opportunities available to students in CDS’s Career and Life Studies Certificate (CLSC), a two-year postsecondary program for young adults with intellectual disabilities.
It focuses on three recent CLSC graduates, Catherine Lin, Mike Massello and Ian Snitch, all of whom were hired by the employers they interned with. The students and their supporters emphasize how the positions have helped them grow and become more confident.
The Trump administration has issued a rule blocking hundreds of thousands of Medicaid-funded home health aides from deducting union dues from their paychecks, which may also stop the workers from making payroll deductions for health insurance premiums and training costs. Home health aides expressed concern that the rule will weaken their ability to work together to improve their jobs and better serve their clients. A major union and a coalition of five Democratic state attorneys general have separately sued the Trump administration over the regulation.
Carol Henderson, who was appointed UD’s vice provost for diversity in 2014, has accepted a similar position at Emory University. Henderson, who began her UD career as a professor in English and Africana studies in 1995, oversaw multiple initiatives to promote diversity in her time as vice provost, including the annual presentation of the Mary Custis Straughn Award in recognition of a UD employee’s efforts promoting disability support on campus.
