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| | Ashoka Fellow Profile - Geza Nagy (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18) |
 | | Geza Nagy is challenging people with disabilities to redefine their role in society and complimenting the disabled community's push for change with an external pull by working with business, government, and the media to transform the environment in which disabled people live, work, and function. |
| | Geza is working closely with the National Radio and Television Council to ensure more visibility for the disabled in the media, to conduct research, influence TV producers to include actors with disabilities in their programs, and incorporate the issue of disabilities in the ethics code of National Television. |
| | Geza is using 2003, the European Year of Disability, as a tool for influencing the media and integrating disability work with other existing events, festivals, and programs. |
| www.ashoka.org /fellows/viewprofile3.cfm?reid=96380 (2202 words) |
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