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AWARD WINNERS DR. ZOLINDA STONEMAN ELIZABETH PARRA DANG, MPH BETTY DENT CHIP CONRAD KAREN BARINEAU JARRETT BANKS (The Kroger Company) THOMAS BYRD (The Kroger Company) KATHY JENKINS DOTTIE ADAMS DAVID SAVILLE DAVE ZILLES SENATOR DAN MOODY |
2008 HONOREES 2008 Heart of Gold Recipient Dr. Zolinda Stoneman
“She’s a quiet pioneer – a gentle revolutionary – who has created earth-shaking improvements in the lives of persons with disabilities and their families. We are delighted to honor Dr. Zo Stoneman, whose low-key, gentle, and determined approach to research on issues affecting people with developmental disabilities has had, and continues to have, a positive and revolutionary impact on laws, public policy, and public perception of people with developmental disabilities. Her decades of work devoted to keeping families together, ending institutionalization, and sharing a vision of fully inclusive communities, have forever changed life for families living with developmental disabilities. "We honor Zo for her many national and international "Equally as invaluable, AADD is grateful for a long-standing and ongoing relationship with Dr. Stoneman and her colleagues at the University of Georgia. Zo’s leadership, her innate ability to bring together policymakers, advocates, families, and practitioners, and her willingness to take on oftentimes unglamorous, but none-theless groundbreaking work, empowers and inspires us – and no doubt and thousands of her colleagues and former students – on a daily basis. "It is impossible to overstate Dr. Stoneman’s collective impact on public policy, or to assign a value to the love, dignity, and respect shared between neighbors and friends, brothers and sisters, parents and their children, that Dr. Zolinda Stoneman has helped to make possible.” – Mary Yoder, AADD Executive Director |
