
Dreams of Resilience: Kenneth Kunken's Story
In this Unity in Identity episode, host Derek interviews Kenneth Kunken of Long Island, New York, who became a quadriplegic after a spinal cord injury playing football at Cornell and spent nine months in hospitals and rehab confronting a bleak outlook. With strong support from friends and family, he pivoted from engineering into helping professions, worked at the Viscardi Center supporting people with disabilities, then earned his JD from Hofstra (1982), passed the New York bar, and built a 40+ year career in the district attorney’s office—eventually supervising a large trial bureau—while…
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