Janine Bertram Kemp is the Strategic Partner in Communications for Solutions Marketing Group, providing innovative strategies for businesses targeting consumers with disabilities.
She has written numerous articles for disability publications as well as reports and proposals for federal and state agencies. She frequently works with photo journalist, Tom Olin, documenting and archiving the disability movement.
A sampling of clients includes State of New Mexico Aging and Long Term Services, Pax TV, and the Federal Transit Administration.
She is the former Communications Director for the National Spinal Cord Injury Association and the American Association of Persons with Disabilities (AAPD). Prior to that time, she was Chairman of the Board of Evan Kemp Associates, a durable medical equipment and accessible transportation company based in Maryland.
From 1988-1992, she served as Assistant to Evan J, Kemp, Jr., Chairman U.S. Equal Employment Opportunities Commission. Evan, her late husband, was Janine’s entree’ to the disability movement.
In the 1980’s, a group of advocates decided Evan would become a Republican and bring George Bush 1 and others in that party “on board” to get the Americans with Disabilities Act passed. Evan was on the platform with George Bush on July 26, 1990, when the President signed the ADA into law.
Her relationship with Evan gave Janine a “front row seat” on a little seen or discussed portion of the history of the American disability rights movement. Janine serves on the board of the Disability Rights Center and is a member of ADAPT and Mind Freedom. She lives on the west slope of Mt. Hood, Oregon.
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