Linda Priest, Guest Speaker
Sat, Jun 04
|APPA Web Event
Linda is one f APPA's Founding members
Time & Location
Jun 04, 2022, 1:00 PM – 3:00 PM
APPA Web Event
About the Event
Linda Priest, CRTS, Studied at University of Illinois, Graduated Georgia State University, with degree in Therapeutic Recreation.
1) Worked as a therapist in several recreation hospitals in the Atlanta area including both Shepherd Spinal Center and Emory Rehabilitation.
2) Training Director for Regional Americans with Disabilities Act Center.
3) Retired State of Georgia Americans with Disabilities Act Coordinator
4) Founder and President of the Atlanta Post Polio Association 1985.
Note: The achievement Linda most enjoys bragging about is her competitive nature and the opportunities she had competing in wheelchair sports, helping to found the Dixie Wheelchair Athletic Association and competing for many years in wheelchair basketball and being the first female to finish the Peachtree Road Race in a wheelchair.
