User:Damian P.Gregory

Damian P. Gregory is a Jamaican-born journalist and advocate for the rights of people with disabilities.

Born with Cerebral Palsy, Gregory, 38, has served as the Chairperson of the Miami-Dade County Commission On Disability Issues (CODI) an advisory panel to the Board of County Commissioners, the Advisory Committee for the Alliance for Human Services, and many other Miami-Dade community-based organizations.

In his role as an advocate, Mr. Gregory has attended the State Legislature where he has worked to ensure that the rights of people with disabilities were protected. He worked for two years as a Med-Waiver Support Coordinator working with people with developmental disabilities. Until early 2012, Gregory worked as a travel trainer for people with physical and intellectual disabilities in the Washington DC Metropolitan area, helping them to learn to navigate their way using the public transportation system.

He is the Founder & President of http://www.DisabledVoter.com, a web portal designed to connect people with disabilities to information about decision-makers who are in public service. The site will launch September 2012.

A journalist by profession, Damian has been a working journalist since 1998.

Most recently he was the Deputy Managing Editor for Caribbean Today newsmagazine. He was also the Co-Editor of http://www.AudacityMagazine.com beginning his career at the South Florida Sun-Sentinel.

Damian is a 1997 graduate of the University of Miami where he earned a Bachelor of Science degree after majoring in Broadcast Journalism and Political Science. He is a 1993 graduate of South Miami Senior High, where he served as Student Goverment President.