This year's recipients are Charter Communications and the Honorable Tony Coelho.
Charter Communications has shown its longstanding commitment to ensuring every employee can make an impact. Furthermore, Charter Communications has worked to ensure the needs of all its customers are met by incorporating inclusive design and pioneering features such as tactile packaging and audio-described advertisements.
The Honorable Tony Coelho has spent his life furthering Helen Keller’s legacy through numerous and significant contributions such as developing independence, equality, and justice for persons with disabilities. Coelho served six terms in Congress and held several leadership positions within the House of Representatives. He is the founder of the Americans with Disabilities Act (‘ADA’), and worked to ratify the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities, the inclusion of disabled Americans in the Section 503 of the Rehabilitation Act.
