Stephanie Wolfe
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first heard Jul 2026
last heard 26 Jul
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And that's why we want to start our story by telling you about Nikki Bishop.
Bishop has a neuromuscular condition called spinal muscular atrophy type 2.
Bishop's 39.
She was just a kid when the Americans with Disabilities Act was signed into law.
So she grew up in a world where so much more was possible for her as a person with significant disabilities.
She has a full life now.
She's a licensed clinical social worker in the Denver area and a disability advocate.
I've run into her at the Colorado State Capitol before as she lobbied in support of different disability rights bills.
So Bishop relies on attendants who come to her house to help her live this very full life.
They help her get out of bed, get dressed, bathed, and ready for work.
Because Bishop can't move her body on her own, she depends on AIDS about 23 hours a day.
It's expensive care, hundreds of thousands of dollars a year if she had to pay for it herself.
Private insurance, the kind you get through your job, doesn't pay for it.
But Medicaid does.
That's the government health insurance program for the poor and disabled.
It allows Bishop to have not just her full-time career, but also to be a parent to a nine-year-old.
Without the disability civil rights movement, Bishop thinks she'd probably be in a nursing home today.
Just the amount of opportunities that I've had, you know, and I'm incredibly grateful for that.
It's a fierce title, the Gang of 19.
But the group of young people met in a place where they had almost no power, a suburban Denver nursing home, and not a good one.
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