PSU Continues Push for Better Education for Students with Disabilities

In the days before Jen Dugger Spalding moved to Portland to lead Portland State’s Disability Resource Center in 2012 she watched a movie called Music Within and got excited. The 2007 movie stars Ron Livingston as Richard Pimentel, a Vietnam veteran attending PSU whose activism for disability rights contributed to the passing of the Americans With Disabilities Act (ADA), which celebrates its 30th anniversary...

Richard Pimentel, a key player in the fight for rights for people with disabilities, began his advocacy work in the 1970s when he was a student at Portland State. Richard Pimentel and Art Honeyman with Ron Livingston and Michael Sheen, the actors who play them in "Music Within" As part of...