This is a bonus episode to A Valid Podcast--an interview from All-Abilities Media's original show, Look Who's Here! It was first published on SoundCloud in 2017.

During her 40-year career, Marsha Blanco played a key role in closing troubled institutions that housed people with disabilities. Her effort resulted in threats against her and her children. But she stayed the course, and helped hundreds of people move into community homes. In December 2017, she retired from ACHIEVA disabilities services agency. Look Who's Here!'s founding host Erin Gannon interviewed Blanco. Gannon is a woman with Down syndrome, whose parents decided to raise her like her siblings, and not in an institution. This Press Club of Western Pennsylvania awarded Gannon a Golden Quill for excellence for this piece.