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Gary Karp is an internationally recognized public speaker, corporate trainer, author, and editor. He has been living — fully — with a T12 spinal cord injury since 1973 when he was injured in a fall from a tree at the age of eighteen. He is the author of three books — Life on Wheels: For the Active Wheelchair User, Choosing a Wheelchair: A Guide for Optimal Independence, and Disability & the Art of Kissing: Questions and Answers on the True Nature of Intimacy, all widely reviewed as definitive guides for people with disabilities. His book of essays by people with spinal cord injuries — co-edited with Stanley Klein, PhD — is titled From There to Here: Stories of Adjustment to Spinal Cord Injury. His investigative articles and profiles have appeared regularly in New Mobility magazine, and he is the former Executive Editor of SCI Life, the quarterly newspaper of the National Spinal Cord Injury Association (NSCIA), for whom he was also program chair of the 2006 Summit on Spinal Cord Injury. Gary’s commentaries have been heard on KQED-FM, San Francisco’s NPR affiliate. A very highly-regarded speaker, Gary is sponsored in part by the Christopher & Dana Reeve Paralysis Resource Center, which funds his speaking in rehabilitation settings and to university students of physical and occupational therapy. As a corporate trainer on disability and employment — through his company, Onsight Awareness Training — Gary makes the business case for working with employees with disabilities. Also an accomplished musician and juggler, he has produced a CD of original guitar music and brings his juggling skills to bear in his appearances as a speaker and in his training. Gary lives in Northern California with his wife Paula and their yellow Labrador retreiver, Nava Leah.
