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Founded by Andrea Pepler-Murray in 1999 on the Purdue Calumet Campus, Hoosier ADAPT is devoted to advocating the rights of all people regardless of their disability. Andrea has been instrumental in getting changes on campus to get vendors and school officials to comply with the ADA laws. A Graduate of Partners in Policymaking of 1997, The Indiana Governor’s Planning Council for People with Disabilities trained Andrea to be an Activist. This gave her the power to lobby for bills in the state of Indiana. Andrea has been honored with several awards.
Board member VSA art of Indiana. An organization which brings the arts to special needs children. She won the Indiana Governor's Arts Award in 2001 for helping special needs children from Governor Frank O' Bannon. She also received an Individual Award In Recognition Of Personal Achievement And Service To Persons With Disabilities March 8, 2002 from Hammond Mayor Duane W. Dedelow (seen below).
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Andrea had a paper published on the Micassa Act in an Academic Journal this past August (Undergraduate Research of English and Philosophy available in the bookstore). She is also working in the Mentor Program at Purdue Calumet! Way to go Andrea!
Andrea may be leaving us soon, she is getting ready to graduate. We are looking for volunteers to keep this growing student organization at Purdue. If you are interested please use the contact page form. Officers are needed for positions that will look good on anyone's resume.
Tell Congress to Keep its Promise!