Our Stories Archive - Disability:IN SoCal

Watch Disability:IN SoCal Affiliate’s President, Kristy Mandigo, speak at the National Disability Employment Awareness Summit

DiversityComm, Inc. Adds “DOBE” to List of Minority Business Certifications

DiversityComm, Inc. (DCI), the publisher of six diversity-inclusion focused magazines—Black EOE Journal, HISPANIC Network Magazine, Professional WOMAN’S Magazine, Diversity in STEAM, U.S. Veterans Magazine and DIVERSEability Magazine—is known for its signature celebrity, advocacy-focused cover stories. Now DCI demonstrates its commitment to inclusion by announcing that, along with its WBENC certification, it is now certified by…

An Engineer in Mind and Spirit

Unable to read until age 16, Raytheon’s Kristy Mandigo overcame disabilities to build a stellar career. Born with partial paralysis, portions of her brain missing and spastic cerebral palsy, and later diagnosed with epilepsy, Mandigo wasn’t expected to graduate from elementary school and didn’t learn how to read until she was sixteen. “School district officials…

What Can You Do?

Every day, people with disabilities can and do make important contributions to America’s businesses. They have the drive to succeed in employment, and the skills and talent they need to deliver value and results for their employers. These are messages that bear repeating far and wide. And that’s what the Campaign for Disability Employment (CDE) is all about. The…