He founded and runs a nonprofit organization. He has worked for Pillsbury, Gillette Children's Hospital and the University of Minnesota. It's the image,'' says Cohn, an articulate man who likes e-mail because his speech is hard to understand.
People see the physical body first before they give the person a chance.
Cohn is changing the perception, one workplace and one person at a time. From his home in St. Louis Park he runs Promote Awareness, a nonprofit organization that educates employers in particular about how much people with disabilities have to offer the workplace. Minnesota is a receptive place for that message. Our unemployment rate is among the lowest in the country, which is prompting employers to open their doors to people with disabilities. We were among the first states in the nation to ease restrictions on what disabled people can earn when they're getting government assistance for housing, health care and other basic needs.