- Actor Profile:
Janice Palmer
Able Lives: IncorporatedJanice Palmer holds a highly visible position; she is responsible for
Public Relations at the Neag School at the University of Connecticut.
We met Janice last year when she helped us to book a shoot for Able Lives,
and she did a fabulous job. It was surprising when she came forward to talk to us about her disability,
fibromialgia, which is invisible to those around her. Her story in Able Lives: Incorporated Episode 3 reveals
some of the challenges inherent in a "hidden disabilty."
Name: Richard Blumenthal
Profile:
His advocacy has forced reforms in the health insurance industry to assure critical health care coverage and lower pharmaceutical drug prices. He has worked relentlessly to eradicate corruption in state government and make state contracting accountable, fair, honest and transparent.
He has successfully fought unfair utility rate charges, air pollution causing acid rain and other environmental wrongdoing, and scams and frauds victimizing consumers.
Blumenthal previously served as administrative assistant to U.S. Sen. Abraham A. Ribicoff, aide to former U.S. Sen. Daniel P. Moynihan when Moynihan was Assistant to the President of the United States, and law clerk to U.S. Supreme Court Justice Harry A. Blackmun.
He was U.S. Attorney for Connecticut, the state
