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Invited Speakers: Kathy Martinez

Kathy Martinez is the Deputy Director of World Institute on Disability (WID). She currently supervises the newly-awarded National Technical Assistance Center for Latinos with Disabilities, as well as the five-year International Disability Exchanges and Studies (IDEAS) for the New Millennium Project. Martinez led WID’s Central American Training Program, providing independent living training for rehabilitation specialists and newly injured individuals from El Salvador and Honduras. She also initiated a WID community-based project to engage low-income minority women with HIV/AIDS in activating their own self-care programs. She has participated in international training or development projects in China, Russia, Indonesia, Spain, Honduras, New Zealand, Korea, Namibia, Brazil, Hungary and Mexico. In July 2002, Ms. Martinez was appointed by President George W. Bush as a member of the National Council on Disability, an independent federal agency responsible for advising the President and Congress on disability policy.

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