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Andy Kennedy is Director of Operations and co-founder of Access Anything, a nationally recognized leader in adaptive sports and adventure travel for people with disabilities. Access Anything specializes in marketing and education for all aspects of disability travel including recreation, adventure, eco-travel, and ADA rights and interpretation, and consults with businesses in resort settings to help them realize their growth potential with respect to people with disabilities, who represent the fastest growing and largest untapped tourism market in the world today. Andy and Craig both sit on the Customers’ with Disabilities Advisory Board for Continental Airlines (soon to be “the New United Airlines). She manages two blogs for Access Anything, under Travel and Reviews, and writes and designs its newsletter, The Traveler, in its fifth year, as well as writing frequently for magazines such as Action (United Spinal Publication), Palaestra, Sports N Spokes, and Wheelin’ Sportsman. Andy also works with the Open Doors Organization in their airline and CRO training programs and creating a Service Animal Relief Area guide with the Access Board. Andy grew up in northern Virginia, and has a Bachelors of Arts degree in Visual Art from Eckerd College in St. Petersburg, Florida. After an internship in sustainable living in Dexter, Oregon, she traveled to Scotland where she lived in Glasgow for a year. There, she earned a diploma from the Morris College of Journalism in Travel Writing and Photography. In 1998, Andy moved to Steamboat Springs, Colorado where she has had worn many hats as her career progressed, including travel agent, snowmobile tours manager, staff writer for Steamboat Ski Area, naturalist. Andy has spent the last fifteen years studying alternative medicine and energy healing, and owns and operates Innerself Lightworks, a holistic health business that uses a combination of techniques including Reiki, crystals, meditation, spirit guidance, Astrology, Numerology, Earth Acupuncture, and Andy’s natural intuitive abilities for guiding individuals back to mental, physical, and spiritual balance. Andy currently sits on the Yampa Valley Sustainability Council Board of Directors where she inputs on the following committees: Executive Board, Zero Waste Initiative, Talking Green, annual Fundraiser, as well as reporting to Transition Steamboat, Litter Solutions Committee, and the Bark Beetle Information Task Force for YVSC. Last, Andy owns and operates AJDesign and Photography, where she combines her innate artistic abilities with the marketing experience with Access Anything. Artwork includes design such as logos and brochures, photography and wedding photography, as well as traditional and modern calligraphy, which she has recently put to use in doing logos and menus for Steamboat Ski Area. AJDesign also consults with individuals on social marketing, time efficiency and office organization. Andy manages two additional blogs in her spare time: Andy’s Idea Factory and In The Deep Steamboat. |
Craig Kennedy was paralyzed in a skiing accident in Steamboat on March 26, 1996 and has since dedicated his life to encouraging people with disabilities to travel and adventure to their fullest. Craig also has ten years of experience in motivational and inspirational speaking to top spinal cord rehabilitation centers, independent living centers, high schools, colleges, and youth organizations throughout the United States, and has spent the past five years speaking and teaching marketing strategies throughout the United States. It is his vision to break down barriers while educating and spreading awareness of the growing need for better accessibility, and to help create a world that is designed with all people in mind. Craig is President and co-founder of Access Anything, a nationally recognized leader in adaptive sports and adventure travel for people with disabilities, (est.2003), and later opened CK Consulting in 2004 for ADA consulting. Craig’s consulting experience is vast, from developing an access assessment tool for Colorado Scenic Byways to training Steamboat Ski and Resort Corporation’s entire staff on handling customers with disabilities, to individual business access assessments. View his Marketing blog at http://ckconsultingonline.blogspot.com. Since 2006 Craig has worked tirelessly at bringing adaptive sports camps to Steamboat with another company-favorite partner, Adaptive Adventures. In March of 2010 these skiing, waterskiing, cycling, and fishing camps rolled into the Steamboat’s new adaptive program STARS. In October of 2010 Craig was hired as the Program Director for STARS, and has spent the start of the 2010-2011 season building a stronger volunteer instructor base for the program with over 25 training sessions on all types of adaptive instruction. He is also a certified CRO (Complaint Resolutions Officer) trainer for the airline industry, and works with the Open Doors Organization for those as well as the Ground Crew “Stowage” training for several airlines. Craig has been a dedicated member of the Steamboat Springs Chamber Resort Association, including three years on their volunteer Ambassador team, since 2004. He also served three years on the Board of Directors for Partners in Routt County, a youth mentoring program, for three years and has served on the Continental Airlines Customers with Disabilities Advisory Board since 2008. Craig prefers skiing the powder stashes of Steamboat to just about anything, and has gotten well over 1000 days in his Revolution Monoski since re-learning to ski in 1997. In the summer months he loves adaptive golfing and downhill mountain biking. |
