(RNS) — Good leaders are often told to play to their strengths and hide their weaknesses. That has never really worked for disability activist and nonprofit leader Joni Eareckson Tada. Paralyzed from ...

Agoura Hills, CA, July 16, 2025 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- For 35 years, the Americans with Disabilities Act has ensured legal safeguards that protect people with disabilities from discrimination in ...

When Joni Eareckson Tada was 17 years old, her life changed forever. “I broke my neck in a diving accident in 1967, and suddenly I was thrust into this uncomfortable, alien world,” she said. “It was ...

KIM LAWTON, correspondent: Before cancer, Joni Eareckson Tada lived an extremely busy life. One of the longest surviving quadriplegics on record, she led an international Christian ministry for people ...

AGOURA HILLS, Calif. (KABC) -- The Agoura Hills-based ministry organization Joni and Friends recently celebrated the opening of its first international wheelchair restoration center outside of the ...

Over 30 years have passed since Tada (Diamonds in the Dust; More Precious Than Silver) became a quadriplegic as the result of a diving accident. Tada, who has inspired both the able-bodied and ...

Joni Eareckson Tada, a well-known Christian writer and quadriplegic, is the voice behind this year's biggest Oscar upset, the song "Alone Yet Not Alone" from the film of the same name. She talks about ...

Now facing breast cancer and chronic pain, the author, speaker, and advocate talks about the blessings of suffering. Joni Eareckson Tada might be mistaken for a modern-day Job. The disabilities ...

Joni Eareckson Tada, the founder and Chief Executive Officer of Joni and Friends International Disability Center, is an international advocate for people with disabilities. A diving accident in 1967 ...

She sits down in a standup world. “I often feel alone in that regard,” said Joni Eareckson Tada, author, artist and international advocate for people with disabilities. A quadriplegic in a wheelchair, ...

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Advising Presidents Joni Eareckson Tada served on the National Council on Disability under President Reagan and President George H.W. Bush. She watched the ADA be signed into law on the White House ...