Stories about living with disabilities in Vermont — the Green Mountain State. As told by, with, and for Vermonters with disabilities.
Green Mountain Disability Stories
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Stories about living with disabilities in Vermont — the Green Mountain State. As told by, with, and for Vermonters with disabilities.
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June 29, 2026
Episode 35: Ted and Winnie Looby
In this episode of Green Mountain Disability Stories, CDCI's own Dr. Winnie Looby interviews her partner, Ted Looby. Ted Looby is a cancer survivor who is also blind, and he and Winnie talk about their favorite types of audiobooks, and what makes for a well-produced listening production.
March 25, 2025
Episode 33: Karen J. Lloyd & Heidi Swevens
In this episode of the show, we welcome artist and photographer Karen J. Lloyd. She talks with Inclusive Arts Vermont's Heidi Swevens about coming to terms with incorporating disability into her identity, how Lyme Disease changed her life, and a painting by Lloyd that is part of Inclusive Arts Vermont's CYCLES exhibit: an image of a red-and-gold phoenix on a tranquil blue background. Karen graduated from the University of Vermont in 2004, with departmental honors. The CYCLES exhibit has been on tour around Vermont for the past year, and is currently in residence at CDCI's offices in Mann Hall on the University of Vermont campus, in Burlington, Vermont. https://youtu.be/5GsJ-bai5jc A full transcript appears below. Heidi Swevens: Hello, and my name is Heidi Swevens. I have been asked to do a guest host for the Green Mountain Disability Stories Podcast and I'm thrilled to be here with artist Karen Lloyd. So, for access, my name is Heidi Swevens, I use she/they pronouns. I'm the director of Community Partnerships and Exhibitions with Inclusive Arts Vermont, and I'm also a disabled artist and really thrilled to be here. I am a 50 something white human with blue eyes and pale skin and short brown hair. Today I'm wearing a turquoise turtleneck sweater and there's a soft focus behind me and I'm really excited to be in conversation with Karen Lloyd. So, Karen, please introduce yourself. Karen Lloyd: Hi, I'm Karen Lloyd and I also, I use she/her pronouns and I am a 42-year-old fair skinned woman with very long strawberry blonde hair and green eyes. I'm wearing glasses and a turquoise heart necklace and a teal sweater. I am sitting in my living room today in Winooski. Heidi: Wonderful. And so the Green Mountain Disability Stories Podcast is about stories of people with disabilities in Vermont, and today we're going to be talking with you about, we'll start with a piece that's in the CYCLES exhibition, phoenix, and then we'll just see where the conversation takes us. So, Karen, if you don't mind, just tell the audience a little bit about your piece that's in CYCLES, "Phoenix". Karen: Thanks, Heidi. So, my piece, "Phoenix Rising" is an acrylic on canvas and the original is actually is an eight by 10. It was the first piece I'd done in a while and it was a little over a month before my 40th birthday, so sort of the precipice of sort of that change of a new decade. And so a lot of self-reflection happening and I hadn't done actually more full-sized painting in a while, but that one just hit me so hard and it really wanted to come out once that idea was planted. And so I worked on it for all the weeks basically leading up to my 40th birthday and finished it just before my birthday, which meant a lot to me to sort of have that timing. It really felt like the phoenix is this mythological creature that sort of represents rebirth and transitions and overcoming and persevering and being a disabled artist now for over a decade, it has felt like a symbol to me to look to even for my own inspiration. So, I think sometimes people think as an artist we're putting out to the world, but it's also been my own inspiration back to me and it felt like a symbol of everything I've overcome, having Lyme Disease actually starting when I was a UVM student and the challenges that happened even just to get to graduation in a good way. And even then persevering and graduating with honors, but that being very difficult and taking a lot more effort. And then going through the past 20 years really of struggling with all the effects of Lyme Disease and what came through that as fibromyalgia and the migraines and the brain fog and the fatigue. And so hitting that 40 and looking both back and forward of what is the rest of my life going to look like? And at the same time I was just about to contemplate the big decision of divorce. So, it was also a really big life stage change in my life as I was starting "Phoenix" and now I can look...
February 10, 2025
Episode 32: Cosmo & Scarlett Duncan, with Catherine Armani-Munn
Cosmo Duncan is about to graduate from high school, in Burlington, Vermont, and embark on his life as an adult. Cosmo, who has Down Syndrome, sits down to talk with his mom, Scarlett Duncan, and occupational therapist Catherine Armani-Munn. They talk about what life has been like for the family in Vermont, Cosmo's new business, and some important differences between life in rural and urban Vermont. "I think that it's really important to see the difference between the two Vermonts: the rural and the urban Vermont. And we are still good here in Burlington, but people who live in the boondocks? There's nothing there. And if the person does not have a driver's license, which a lot of people with developmental disabilities won't be able to have, then they're stuck." --Scarlett Duncan https://youtu.be/GnqQGBGi13I?si=FTIeoSbHtREEniEK A full transcript of the episode is available below. Catherine: Welcome to Green Mountain Disability Stories. I'm so happy you're here today! And I'm going to introduce myself: so I'm Catherine Armani-Munn and I am an Occupational Therapist or OT, state consultant with the I-Team. And here today, we have... Cosmo, do you want to introduce yourself? Cosmo: Cosmo Duncan. My name is Cosmo Duncan. I am 19 years old and I live with Down Syndrome. I have graduated with my friends, 2023, with my... But I spent longer time at the high school. I am a super senior. I will be alone-- Scarlett: Done. Cosmo: ... I mean done with school this June. Catherine: Thank you, Cosmo. And we also have? Scarlett: Scarlett Duncan. I'm the mom, his guardian and his fierce advocate, if I may say so. I'm excited that we are here. I'm always excited if we can get stories out that encourage other parents or other therapists or teachers, whoever, and how this can run and how beautiful the stories can be if it works. Catherine: Exactly. So today I've asked you, Cosmo and Scarlett, to share your story, but really focusing, like you said, Cosmo, you just graduated and you're really entering that next phase of life of becoming an adult and living on your own. So I'd love to talk about today what your leisure activities or what brings you joy, because you're going to be away from your school community soon. So really what you plan on doing once you leave school and you're out in the community and how you're going to find joy every day. So that's what I would love to hear your story. Scarlett: Do you want to tell her that or do you want me to start you off? Cosmo: Yeah. Start me off. Scarlett: So maybe I give a little start-up, so he knows where to take off. Catherine: Yeah, exactly. Maybe a little back. Scarlett: So Cosmo is a super senior. That means he stays in the school's district even though he doesn't really have school anymore. He's supposed to get transition services and other services. Due to workforce problems and funding problems, that has been really sketchy. Up to now, they have not been able to find a job placement or even an internship that would make sense, because the funding for the program he was in stopped in the middle of the school year. But exciting news, as we don't seem to find the right placement, Cosmo is planning on his what? Cosmo: I am having my own business. Catherine: Oh, I can't wait to hear more about that. Scarlett: So right now, that's his biggest thing. It's all worth it. He's totally for it. Catherine: I believe that. So what have you found to be the best thing about the systems of support or the education that you've worked with here in Vermont, Scarlett or Cosmo? Scarlett: So the best thing here in Vermont is that everybody ever in our, well except one or two exceptions, I shouldn't say everybody, but nearly everybody has always tried everything they could, and that was in their power to make things work. And as we are the pandemic generation up and running and also the PCV generation, which means we didn't really have a high schoo...
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