mW: Could you tell us
a little about your background?
On June 13,
1998, my husband Mark Leder and I went for a bicycle ride on a rural wooded
bike trail in Granville, OH. After riding for a few minutes, Mark thought he
heard a gunshot and slowed down to investigate. As he scanned the scene
he saw a large tree falling. He shouted, “Stop!” But the warning was too late.
Instantly, I was crushed by a 7,000 pound tree and paralyzed from the waist
down.
mW: What is your
profession?
Speaker,
trainer, consultant, and author
mW: What are you
passionate about?
My
family and my work.
mW: Do you have any
current projects?
Coming home
from the hospital in a wheelchair, I realized how my home intensified my
disability. My husband and I knew that
we had to sell our home and find something more suitable. We decided to build
our home and the Universal Design Living
Laboratory was born. This has been the catalyst for many of my projects.