Description: Ms. Wheelchair Alabama America is for women of achievement who utilize wheelchairs to successfully educate and advocate for individuals with disabilities
The mission of Ms. Wheelchair Alabama America Inc. is to provide an opportunity for achievement of women who happen to be wheelchair users to successfully educate and advocate for the more than 54 million Americans living with disabilities, and to uplift the communities in Alabama where they live through awareness, education, and community service programs. Our organization has two goals each year: 1) to award one education scholarship and one need grant per year–these are open to any female wheelchair use
Karneshia Shantel, best known as K.Shantel, is a model and disability influencer hailing from Senatobia, Mississippi that has taken the runway by storm in what she considers both her best friend and her worst enemy – her infamous purple wheelchair. K. Shantel has had a love-hate relationship with her chair since the age of three after an early diagnosis of spina bifida. Spina bifida is a birth defect in which an infant’s spine is underdeveloped that caused her to not have use of her legs. Nonetheless, she i
you must be a U.S. female citizen to enter