Adam is a disability advocate, actor, and writer living in Austin, Texas with his wife Laura, and their beautiful daughter. 
"I have more of a responsibility than desire for pleasure. How shallow to be consumed by lust and desire. We have a duty to ourselves and to others to know God on whatever level we can conceive of him, or her. 

I rise before the sun, I shower, and meditate on the cause of all causes. When you say “God,” or any other name for the Lord, people tend to stop listening. So, with that in mind, I don’t ‘Hare Krishna’ right off. "

Jennifer McKinney

Jennifer McKinney was born legally blind. She has always enjoyed reading and writing. Some of her work has been published in Soupstone Literary Anthology. Despite the challenge of being visually impaired, Jennifer graduated from American Broadcasting School. She went on to work for KOOP 91.7 FM, a community radio station in Austin. An active member of her community for the past nineteen years, Jennifer joined Art Spark Texas in the Spring of 2014. She was introduced to OMOD by a friend. In her spare time, Jennifer loves traveling abroad and singing along with the radio poorly. 

No moss gathers on a rolling wheelchair, and throughout the state of Texas are sightings of John Beer and his travel trailer. With his wife's help, John spotlights the disability side of skydiving, fire evacuations & other topics for New Mobility magazine. You’ll also find him on MS Connections at TheMighty.com – and he's wheelie excited being on the team creating Art Spark Texas' new podcast, True Tales by Disability Advocates. John was a member of our first Virtual Speaking Advocates Training and is one of the storytellers in Episode 2, “Life on Wheels”. 
ID: John, bearded smiling wearing a straw cowboy hat and a black button-down, a crowd of people walking behind him.
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Kamand Alaghehband was born and raised in Austin, TX, and has autism. In 2020, the CDC reported approximately 1 in 54 children in the U.S. diagnosed with autism ratio is more than all cancer patients combined. Kamand has spent her life supporting all generations with disabilities. Kamand loves the Special Olympics, and her favorite sports are swimming, basketball, and track. Kamand is a member of the executive committee of Special Olympics Athletes Leadership in Texas. 

She creates her own podcasts, Tik Tok videos, video games, and a variety of health activities during the pandemic to keep her mind occupied in a healthy way. 

Kamand’s mission is to bring peace today and create a vision of equity and inclusion for tomorrow’s disabled population. Kamand hopes that she’ll be able to teach others to turn denial into acceptance.
ID: Kamand smiles into the camera, long brown hair with red headband, wearing light pink lace dress.

Kristen Gooch is an actress, poet, and advocate from Austin, Texas with cerebral palsy and uses a wheelchair for mobility.  She hopes to broaden her horizons and branch out into film and television someday. She currently facilitates a peer support group through Imagineart called Adapting Sheros for women with mobility disabilities.  She is a company member of TILT Performance Group and Paradox Players.
ID: Kristen, a caucasian young woman with shoulder-length auburn hair and pink lipstick smiles into the camera. She is wearing a pink short-sleeved dress with gray triangles and a black zig-zag pattern, a black beaded necklace, and hoop earrings. The background is light brown and yellow.

Kurt Wilkinson is an actor who graduated from Texas A&M University-Corpus Christi with a BA in Acting as well as a BA in Media Studies in 2019. His passion and career is acting, but when he's not doing theatre, he likes to relax by binge watching YouTube, playing  Nintendo games, or Dungeons and Dragons. Currently, he is successfully working in the San Antonio theatre community.