Episode 10: Kelsey
“Who are we when we lose what defines us?”
-Kelsey
Kelsey dove into a 3 foot lake in a lapsed-reality split-second decision that forever changed her life. She traveled all over the country to find the answers around healing and paralysis. PBS is featuring her documentary about her journey on their networks. SUBMERGED, COMING SOON. Her story is incredible, come listen to her experience.
Kelsey Peterson, Director/Producer of Submerged
Kelsey is a C6 quadriplegic, dancer, and advocate. She revels in creation and possibility. Kelsey received her BFA in Dance-Performance & Choreography from the University of Montana in 2008, and later her yoga teacher certification from CorePower Yoga. Her path was tragically interrupted when she sustained her spinal cord injury in 2012 and became paralyzed from the chest down. She has since been adapting to her new life, looking for grace and purpose from the wheelchair. Her advocacy work on the board of Get Up Stand Up to Cure Paralysis out of Minneapolis led her to her role as Ms. Wheelchair Minnesota, 2014. In 2015, she co-founded Out of the Chair, a program encouraging creative movement for people with disabilities, at Circus Juventas in St. Paul, Minnesota. She is currently working as lead Choreographer and Co-Director on a live music and dance production for differently-abled bodies titled, A Cripple’s Dance. Together with nonprofit Unite to Fight Paralysis, Kelsey is also working to develop a call to action for SUBMERGED to further unite and empower the Spinal Cord Injury community and help expedite functional recovery for those living with paralysis.
Click here for SUBMERGED’s website.
Check out Unite 2 Fight Paralysis
Connect with Kelsey on Instagram
Kelsey is a dancer, an artist, even still with no end in sight!
Kelsey and her dad
PARTNERSHIP WITH U2FP:
“SUBMERGED is excited to have partnered with the nonprofit Unite 2 Fight Paralysis, a national organization that dedicates itself to advocacy, empowerment and unity toward finding a cure for paralysis.
A special thanks to U2FP for taking us under their generous wing and truly exemplifying the importance of unity.
all donations are tax deductible and go directly to the making of SUBMERGED.” - Kelsey
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