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It all started over the kitchen table.

“I heard you’re on the radio,” Erin Gannon told me. “That’s my dream.”

I was working at the group home where Erin lives. My job title: “direct support professional” at Emmaus Community of Pittsburgh. I support Erin and others with intellectual disabilities. DSPs help residents live their best lives.

That morning in the kitchen, Erin invited me to support her in a different way. She asked me to bring together my 25-year career in journalism and my direct care work. We started practicing interview skills and microphone handling. Erin was a natural. Within two years she’d won two Press Club of Western Pennsylvania Golden Quill awards.
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This was the beginning of the All-Abilities Media Project. It’s an effort we began and continue to run in collaboration with the Center for Media Innovation at Point Park University. It’s primarily funded by The FISA Foundation and other philanthropical organizations. Awesome Pittsburgh and the Pittsburgh Media Partnership have pitched in, too!

The writing, podcasts, and videos about disability that appear here on Unabridged Press are largely provided through All-Abilities Media. Our goal is to build an understanding of diverse human minds and bodies. We support people with disabilities in creating digital media, broadening their work opportunities.  

We hope you’ll enjoy reading, and that you’ll keep coming back here and check out All-Abilities Media’s own website!

Jennifer Szweda Jordan is a founder and producer of Unabridged Press. She is a native Pittsburgher who's worked at The Associated Press, The Allegheny Front Environmental Radio, and other news outlets. She intermittently tweets @jeniferpossible