Self Advocates Becoming Empowered (SABE) and the partners of the Self Advocacy Resource and Technical Assistance Center (SARTAC) are pleased to announce the 2022-2023 SARTAC Fellowship Award recipients.
Six Fellows were chosen through a competitive application process to carry out independently designed self advocacy leadership and policy-related projects. This is the fifth group of SARTAC Fellows. Fellows are listed below with their hometown, brief biography, title and summary of their project, and Host organization.
To learn more about the SARTAC Fellowship, these outstanding self advocates, and the previous class of Fellows, click here.
SARTAC Fellows 2023-2024
Dora Martinez is a Fellow at the Nevada Governor’s Council on Developmental Disabilities.
Dora spent her Fellowship year creating resources about Voting in Nevada
Click here to see her resources.
Dora Martinez
SARTAC Fellow from Reno, Nevada
Fellowship Project: Leadership Academy
Project Summary: Leadership Academy will train people with disabilities on their rights and help them to advocate for themselves.
CG Matovina is a Fellow at The Transformation Center DBA KIVA Centers.
CG Matovina
SARTAC Fellow from Worcester, Massachusetts
Fellowship Project: Disability Justice in Action
Project Summary: Disability Justice in Action will create training and resources to teach the 10 Principles of Disability Justice. The training and resources will focus on listening to the voices of people who feel left out. We will build a community to support each other with self-advocacy, self-determination, and decision-making.
Anna Montaldo is a Fellow at Missouri Developmental Disabilities Council
Anna spent her Fellowship year creating resources about Leadership
Click here to see her resources.
Anna Montaldo
SARTAC Fellow from St. Louis, Missouri
Fellowship Project: Teamwork Makes the Dream Work!
Project Summary: Teamwork Makes the Dream Work will create a course that teaches people with intellectual disabilities basic leadership skills and etiquette or good manners in speaking and working together with influential people, such as legislators, and how to behave professionally. Talking with videos should make the content engaging, understandable, and easy to remember.
Ocean Poet is a Fellow at The Arc Minnesota
Ocean spent his Fellowship year creating resources that explain The Self-Advocate Artistic Movement
Ocean Poet
SARTAC Fellow from St. Paul, Minnesota
Fellowship Project: The Self-Advocate Artistic Movement
Project Summary: The Self-Advocate Artistic Movement will focus on bringing people with disabilities together in the community to learn about self-advocacy and self-expression through art. This project will help elevate a community that is often marginalized or left out and whose history gets erased. They tell stories and show people that the disability community has always existed.
Deziree Tacub is a Fellow at the Hawaii State Council on Developmental Disabilities
Deziree spent her Fellowship year creating a Guide to Employment
Click here to see her resources.
Deziree Tacub .
SARTAC Fellow from Lihue, Hawaii
Fellowship Project: Video Guide to Employment
Project Sumary: The Video Guide to Employment videos the Fellows and Host will make to help other people get jobs. The videos will be small, short videos, each on a different topic. The videos will go on YouTube and social media so people with developmental disabilities anywhere can watch them. She believes employment for individuals with developmental disabilities is important and advocates for equal rights.
Kelsie Weaver is a Fellow at the Disability EmpowHer Network
Kelsie Weaver
SARTAC Fellow from Martins Ferry, Ohio
Fellowship Project: ‘Liberty and Justice for All Means All!’ A look into Disabled Women and Girls’ Involvement with Civic Engagement
Project Summary: ‘Liberty and Justice for All Mean All!’ - A Look into ‘Disabled Women and Girls’ Involvement with Civic Engagement will create a guide that empowers disabled women and girls to take the next step in getting involved, from voting to running for office!
If you would like to contact the SARTAC Fellows, please email Teresa Moore (connect@selfadvocacyinfo.org).