National Disability Radio: Senator Tom Harkin

We wrap up our series on the battle for the passage of the ADA with none other than Senator Tom Harkin. Senator Harkin was the lead sponsor of the ADA in the Senate and has spent his career being a steadfast ally to the disability community. In this interview we talk to him about what that was like, where we need to go from here, and he even stumps us with a bit of disability rights trivia.

Full transcript available at: https://www.ndrn.org/resource/ndr-harkin/

Michelle Bishop:

Welcome back to another episode of National Disability Radio. This is the final in our series on the anniversary of the ADA. So before we jump into a very special guest that we have for you this episode, I am one of your podcast hosts, Michelle Bishop, the voter access and engagement manager at NDRN.

Stephanie Flynt McEben:

And I’m Stephanie Flynt McEben, public policy analyst here at NDRN, and another host, or one of our other hosts, for our podcast today.

Michelle Bishop:

Okay. Clearly taking his side, Stephanie. Clearly taking his side.

Stephanie Flynt McEben:

Okay. Okay. But Jack has proven that he is worthy of host,

Michelle Bishop:

Producer and pro host extraordinaire, please introduce yourself.