Change attitudes toward disabilities, Colleen Starkloff tells Fontbonne audience

The Fontbonne University community is urged to be "agents for change" in helping the world to become more welcoming toward people with disabilities through taking a more positive approach.

Colleen Kelly Starkloff, co-director of The Starkloff Disability Institute, gave the commencement address Dec. 17 at Fontbonne and pushed for change in societal attitudes toward disabilities. "Your attitude toward an issue drives how you will approach it," she said in her text, adding, "I don't say that lightly -- become an agent for change in the world."

Read more of Joseph Kenny's St. Louis Review article HERE.