Center for Disability Inclusion
  • Home
  • Who We Are
    • Our History
    • Leadership Team
    • Board of Directors
    • Corporate Partners
    • Pivotal Partners
    • Strategic Partners >
      • University of Arkansas Grantham
    • 2022 Year in Review
  • Seal of Accomplishment
  • Events
    • Calendar
    • Monthly Newsletters
    • Disability Inclusion Network >
      • Upcoming Events
    • Annual Conference
    • Champions Celebration Event >
      • Past Award Recipients
    • Learning & Development Programs
  • JOBS
    • Employers
    • Candidates
  • Partnership
    • Business Partners >
      • Options & Benefits Detail
    • Pivotal Partners >
      • Options & Benefits Detail
  • Training
  • Resources
  • Contact
Annual recognition of companies who are ​disability inclusion champions

Photo Gallery of 2019 Event

Madrid Theatre exterior with marquee sign DisabilityIN GKC Disability Champions Luncheon
Banner promoting DisabilityIN GKC
3 women working at registration area - Peggy Lindsay, Larisa Brown, Kathy Smith
3 glass vases for award recipients
close up of glass vase with etching for disability champion award recipient - LMV Automotive Systems 2019
Andy Hrasky, general manager LMV Automotive Systems giving Disability Champion award acceptance speech
LMV Automotive attendees group pic
close up of glass vase with etching for volunteer of the year award recipient - Kathy Smith 2019
group pic with volunteer of the year award recipient Kathy Smith and Brenda Perkins, Darla Wilkerson, Mary Beth Majors
volunteer of the year award recipient John Holt giving thank you remarks
volunteer of the year award recipient John Holt giving thank you remarks
people at silent auction table placing bids
Darla Wilkerson executive director giving opening remarks
Keith Wiedenkeller, founding president giving remarks about our past and how we started
attendees at table listening to presentations including Vicki Slaughter
Kathy Smith at table smiling at camera
presenter at podium
group pic - Michael Murray, emcee; Andy Hrasky, award recipient; Darla Wilkerson, executive director
Lindsey Roy giving keynote presentation
Lindsey Roy giving keynote presentation; able to see both of her prosthetic legs
close up of Michael Murray emceeing
Keith Wiedenkeller and Brenda Perkins, founding board members smiling at camera
2 women smiling at camera - Joelle Jantzen and other
group pic with Darla Wilkerson, executive director and Allied Inclusion Works - Vicki Slaughter and Ryan
group pic - Michael Murray, Brenda Perkins, Darla Wilkerson, unidentified woman, Kathy Smith
group pic - Michael Murray, Brenda Perkins, Darla Wilkerson, Silas Dulan with Evergy and Flower Cantu-Kelley with Sprint
group pic - Brenda Perkins, Mike Horn with Sprint, Darla Wilkerson and Flower Cantu-Kelley with Sprint
group pic - Michael Murray, Darla Wilkerson and Joelle Jantzen and unidentified woman with YRC
group pic with Empower Retirement attendees
group pic - Brenda Perkins, John Holt, Lindsey Roy, Keith Wiedenkeller, Darla Wilkerson, Mary Beth Majors
group pic - Brenda Perkins, John Holt, Darla Wilkerson, Mary Beth Majors
group pic - Darla Wilkerson and two unidentified women
group pic - Brenda Perkins, Darla Wilkerson, Keith Wiedenkeller, founding president and Mary Beth Majors, current president
group pic of Cosentino's attendees - two women and Nathan Garrison
Goodwill Industries attendees - Katherine Maloney and Karen Altenhoffen
group pic with current DisabilityIN GKC board
two women smiling - Kathy Cooper, Enterprise Bank and one unidentified
overview pic of attendees at tables listening to speakers
man and woman at table listening to speakers
wide photo of attendees at tables
current board members Kathy Smith, Mary Beth Majors, Caroline Magruder
Alphapointe attendees Jay Robertson and Steve Bowie
attendees visiting with each other Flower Cantu-Kelley, Sprint and Silas Dulan, Evergy
silent auction table with KC Royals items
people looking at items on silent auction table
people gathered around silent auction table
people at silent auction table bidding on items
group of attendees talking with each other
George Calvert 2020 board president making remarks
attendees at tables listening to presentations
attendees standing and talking with each other
childrens mercy hospital attendees visiting with each other
Ruth Coram, American Academy of Family Physician visiting with other attendees
LMV Automotive attendees at their table
wide picture of tables and attendees
wide picture of attendees at tables
wide picture of attendees at tables
wide picture of attendees at tables
George Calvert talking with unidentified man from LMV Automotive Systems

  ​                                                            Past Disability Champion Award Recipients

2019  -  ​LMV Automotive Systems
2018  -  Cosentino's Food Stores and Cactus Grill
2016  -  Sunflower Health and Home Depot (Liberty, MO)
2015  -  Staples
2014  -  Cerner Corporation and Wagstaff & Cartmell, LLC
2013  -  Sprint
2012  -  UMB and City Wide Maintenance
​2011  -  Children's Mercy Hospital & Clinics and Rose Estates
2010  -  KPMG, Grundfos Pump and Fulfillment Plus


Past Volunteer of the Year Award Recipients

2019  -  Kathy Smith and John Holt
2018  -  George Calvert
2016  -  Jennifer Hertha
2015  -  Teresa Salinas
2014  -  Larisa Brown
2013  -  Tim Menne
2012  -  Sue Willman
2011  -  Brenda Perkins
2010  -  Keith Wiedenkeller
 For more information about the Disability Champions Luncheon contact darla@disabilityin-gkc.org 
​

Disability: IN GKC is a registered 501(c)(3) organization. 

STAY in Touch

JOIN US ON FACEBOOK

JOIN US ON LINKEDIN

Sign Up for Email Updates

CONTACT US

Center for Disability Inclusion
PO Box 901296
Kansas City MO 64190

dwilkerson@centerfordisabilityinclusion.org
Platinum Transparency Seal 2022 from Candid
Picture
​Copyright © 2021 Center for Disability Inclusion
  • Home
  • Who We Are
    • Our History
    • Leadership Team
    • Board of Directors
    • Corporate Partners
    • Pivotal Partners
    • Strategic Partners >
      • University of Arkansas Grantham
    • 2022 Year in Review
  • Seal of Accomplishment
  • Events
    • Calendar
    • Monthly Newsletters
    • Disability Inclusion Network >
      • Upcoming Events
    • Annual Conference
    • Champions Celebration Event >
      • Past Award Recipients
    • Learning & Development Programs
  • JOBS
    • Employers
    • Candidates
  • Partnership
    • Business Partners >
      • Options & Benefits Detail
    • Pivotal Partners >
      • Options & Benefits Detail
  • Training
  • Resources
  • Contact