As mental health issues and construction dominated campus life in 2023, Technician, NC State’s student newspaper, embarked on in-depth coverage of how those issues were affecting students.
Those efforts didn’t go unnoticed.
The Ableist, a website that tracks disability and neurodiversity coverage in higher education, ranked Technician’s coverage of disability issues among the best in the country among collegiate media outlets. Read more…
June 9, 2019. Ali Stroker wins Best Featured Actress in a Musical at the 73rd Annual Tony Awards. An actor, singer, and wheelchair user, Ali Stroker has been a trailblazer for disability representation on the stage. She was the first wheelchair user to graduate from the Tisch School of the Arts Drama Department at New York University. In 2015, she was the first wheelchair user to appear on Broadway, starring as Anna in the musical, Spring Awakening. For her performance as Ado Annie Carnes in the Rodgers and Hammerstein musical, Oklahoma!, Stroker became the first wheelchair user to win a Tony Award in 2019.
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