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Charlotte Hine in Able: Viewing Disability Through the Lens of Innovation

Apr 16, 2018

The Story I Never Tell

I was part of the general cast in my middle school’s drama production. A girl named Sydney was cast in the same role…

Charlotte Hine in Able: Viewing Disability Through the Lens of Innovation

Apr 2, 2018

10 Takeaways from “Able”

Once a week for the next 12 weeks, I’ll be sharing blog posts with snippets of lessons from my book. Here’s a peek…

Charlotte Hine in Able: Viewing Disability Through the Lens of Innovation

Apr 30, 2018

“Call Me Kier”

I met my best friend, Kier, before either of us could remember. Our moms first met when we were babies, while walking us in…

Charlotte Hine in Able: Viewing Disability Through the Lens of Innovation

Apr 9, 2018

Upside Down Puzzles

As a child, my aunt Amy did not understand how to play with toys.

Charlotte Hine in Able: Viewing Disability Through the Lens of Innovation

May 7, 2018

The Fruit Punch Lesson

Sometimes, to truly listen to someone, you have to have both the motive and the motivation to understand them. These…

Charlotte Hine in Able: Viewing Disability Through the Lens of Innovation

Apr 23, 2018

The Design Advantage of Disability

In promoting my book, Able, I talk quite a bit about the increasingly important role that…

Charlotte Hine in Able: Viewing Disability Through the Lens of Innovation

Jun 11, 2018

Making It Work

Early on in his career, my dad held a job in sales for a life insurance firm. As a new salesman, he had to learn how to cold call…

Charlotte Hine in Able: Viewing Disability Through the Lens of Innovation

May 28, 2018

The Curb Cut Effect

I stood at the bottom of the stairs feeling hopeless.
“How are we going to get all of this up there?” I asked my dad.

After nearly 8 hours in the car driving down to Washington, D.C., to move into Georgetown, I had to move everything from our car into my on-campus apartment. In past years…

Charlotte Hine in Able: Viewing Disability Through the Lens of Innovation

Jun 18, 2018

Why I Wrote This Book

In fourth grade, I told everyone I was going to write a book. At the time, I was convinced my poetry skills were unmatched. For the entire school year, everyone had to listen to me go on and on about my plans to publish my mediocre poetry. I may not have followed through with those plans…

Charlotte Hine in Able: Viewing Disability Through the Lens of Innovation

Jun 4, 2018

Shut Up and Listen

Ernesto Sirolli, a distinguished expert in sustainable economic development, got his start as an aid worker in Africa in the 1970s, when he worked for an Italian NGO. One of his first projects was in a village in Zambia where agriculture was struggling. The aid workers arrived to some of the…

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Able: Viewing Disability Through the Lens of Innovation

Charlotte Hine weaves her own experiences and the stories of others to help her readers understand how disability can be an engine of innovation, and how harnessing the unique talents and insight from people with disabilities starts with how we listen.

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