12th
Annual Inclusion Network
Leadership Awards
Greater Cincinnati Celebrated 'Moving IN The Right Direction'
Greater Cincinnati once again packed the Northern Kentucky Convention Center ballrooms to help the INclusion Network celebrate efforts to INclude and welcome people who have disabilities. The 12th Annual INclusion Leadership Awards Event, themed "Moving IN The Right Direction," recognized those whose attitudes and actions are involved in the forward thinking momentum created by INclusion. It was sponsored by Federated Department Stores Inc./Macy's. Major media partner was WLWT.
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We want to thank Ed Cunningham, one of our Hidden Treasures' artists, and his group, the Comet Bluegrass All Stars for helping us kick-off the program with their feet stompin' music.We also want to thank Kyle Conley and Peter Cunningham, two incredibly talented alumni of the Cincinnati Boychoir, for delighting the audience with their impactful performance of Panis Angelicus.
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 Dave Wagner, master of ceremonies WLWT News Anchor Dave Wagner always does a great job as our master of ceremonies. | |
 Marie Trottier, our featured speaker | Marie Trottier was our featured speaker. She is the disabilities coordinator for Harvard University, and also serves on numerous governmental, civic and business Boards. In her more than 15 years at the prestigious Ivy League school, Marie has handled the very serious business of ensuring it is open and accessible to everyone. Her employer, she told our audience, noticed and knows of her difference, but it doesn't matter.
"If we are to live in an INclusive society then we must acknowledge and work to engineer institutions that are places of INclusion for those with and without disabilities," she said in her speech. |
Marie credits her upbringing by two tall parents and her community that embraced diversity, for her confidence and success. She shared many personal stories at our Event.
She concluded with some parting words, "By treating people with respect and a kind word, I find the gestures are most often reciprocated. The world is far from a perfect place, and sometimes negative experience will overwhelm you, but those must be used to mold and shape what you choose to do and who you choose to be each day. We must learn to view ourselves as we would like the world to view us. We must strive to be the architects of INclusive communities across our society. We must make others' noticeable differences not matter if we are to hope that ours will not matter. We must take it upon ourselves to continue moving IN the right direction."
To see the honoree videos and presentations, please click here.
http://www.cetconnect.org/lifelong/
August A. Rendigs Foundation
Cinergy Foundation
City of
Cincinnati, Department of Community Development and Planning
Fifth Third Bank
Greater Cincinnati Foundation and its George and Peggy K. Stricker Fund
Jacob G. Schmidlapp Trusts, Fifth Third Bank, Trustee
The Kaplan Foundation
Wendling Printing
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To listen to or see Marie Trottier’s speech, please click here
http://www.cetconnect.org/cetconnect_video.asp?ID=1245
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