Empish JeAnne Thomas is a freelance writer and disability advocate in Atlanta, Georgia. She combines both of her passions by writing interesting and compelling stories on disability-related issues, human interest stories and features.
Empish has spent the last few years working and volunteering in the disability community providing resources and advocacy. Taking this experience, she has expanded it into her writing producing pieces on disability issues that are both informative and inspirational. In these stories her purpose is to bring a positive and human angle that has been lacking in typical news stories on people with disabilities.
In addition to her writing on disability-related subjects, Empish has always enjoyed meeting and learning about interesting people. This curiosity has led her into a specialty of writing profiles. One of her first freelance assignments was writing a new business profile for her community paper. This one small story launched her into writing profiles on people and businesses. She later expanded her profile writing to national newspapers, magazines and website content. Her profiles center on compelling aspects of everyday people - whether it is their business, hobbies or community activities. She wrote a one-year profile column for her community paper on local hobby collectors. She currently writes a bimonthly career column for Dialogue Magazine; an international magazine for the blind. In this column she writes about blind cooks, newspaper reporters, travel agents, teachers and artists.
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LINKS
National Federation of the Blind, Georgia Affiliate
Georgia Area Radio Reading Service
Disability Resource Group
American Foundation for the Blind, Career Connect
