Connecting To Why with Gerry Altamirano

The Independent Life

Gerry Altamirano is an Inclusion Strategist at Tangible Development. He joins us back on the podcast with an exciting conversation around being socially conscience, civics minded, and philosophically astute. Gerry describes himself as an emotionally intelligent relationship builder who believes in changing people’s hearts and minds by connecting them to their why.

On this episode, Tony talks with Gerry about how he was raised, all the different parts of his identity, and how they intersect with one another. Gerry reflects on how all these factors have helped to shape his philosophical approach to disability, inclusion, equity, access, and how it has allowed him to become to successful in the area of his working with organizations to help promote disability inclusion. Gerry has an incredible amount of experience in this area, as he talks about some of the challenges and facilitators of where we have been, where we are today, and where we are going, in terms of the disability movement.

Gerry opens up about the challenges that advocates have in this area of work and shares some of the ways he thinks we can make sure that we all stay on the same page. His effort aims to lift each other up and to be sources of inspiration, regardless of our background, acknowledging that people have different experiences and how that helps to form how we see the world. Despite our differences, how we can all get together and become unified even if we come from different places and backgrounds?

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