Emily Rapp Black (born July 12, 1974) is an American memoir author. When she was six years old, she was chosen as the poster child for the non-profit organization March of Dimes, due to a congenital birth defect that resulted in the amputation of her left leg. [1]

2016年2月15日 · Emily Rapp was born in Nebraska and grew up in Wyoming and Colorado. Born with a congenital defect, her left foot was amputated at age four, and she has worn a prosthetic limb ever since. A former Fulbright scholarship recipient, she was educated at Harvard University, Saint Olaf College, Trinity College-Dublin, and the University of Texas at ...

2021年1月20日 · Emily Rapp Black watched her son Ronan die when he was just 2 1/2. In her memoir Sanctuary, she challenges conventional ideas about grief, strength a resilience and grief.

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Emily sees the battle against disabled discrimination as “the final frontier,” of prejudice. “It’s completely intersectional,” she notes. “It hits every class, every gender or gender identification, every ethnicity, every skin color, every age; it’s completely democratic.”

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