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Thirty-four years ago today, President George Bush signed into law the Americans with Disabilities Act, the world's first comprehensive declaration of equality for people with disabilities.\n\nOur guest today is a young woman with a very special perspective on the doors that were opened, literally, by the ADA, and a painfully special insight into the consequences of inner-city gun violence.\n\nHer name is Rolanda \u201cDolly\u201d Coleman, a soon to be second year law student at Fordham Law School, who was interning this summer with the New York City Criminal Court.\n\nRolanda was only 17 years old and living in public housing in East New York when she was shot three times in a stairwell, paralyzing her and leaving her to navigate life in a wheelchair.\n\nTranscript: https://ww2.nycourts.gov/sites/default/files/document/files/2024-07/Rolanda.pdf