We hope you all had a great Fourth of July weekend! We know you haven’t heard from us directly in a while so we wanted to update you on what has been going on. Rest assured we have been working hard to take Different & Able to the next level. Along with our weekly blog posts on our website and daily social media posts, we have some exciting things happening!
On Monday, June 3rd, 2019, Different & Able officially launched with a party at the Empire Rooftop in NYC. With over 100 guests in attendance, awareness was raised on the disability community - emphasizing people can have many abilities regardless of their disability or difference. To help spread our message, American Jazz musician and America’s Got Talent contestant, Mandy Harvey, shared motivational words and performed song lyrics about her journey of becoming deaf and beating the odds to reach her dream to be a musician.
We are thrilled to announce that Kristina Spiropoulos is our new Executive Director. Kristina has two master degrees, a Masters of Science in Public Relations and Corporate Communications as well as Political Science. She has worked with a variety of organizations including the United Nations, Amnesty International, Special Olympics and the Friends of the Budapest Festival Orchestra. Kristina brings knowledge of the nonprofit industry and her passion for the medical community to Different & Able.
We are currently updating our website to make it more user-friendly and adding new features as well as networking to get high-quality content and putting together our first newsletter! Stayed tuned for more information!
We’d love to hear from you – whether it’s a hello and if you're looking for support of any kind, wanting to submit a written contribution or have any ideas for us, we’d love to hear from you!
Sincerely Yours,
Alexandra Nicklas
