Dearborn, Carrie

Carrie Dearborn is a writer, comedian, and advocate on disability issues. A former computer operator specialist and downhill ski instructor, Dearborn was 27 in 1981 when she had a stroke resulting from an Arterial Venus Malformation. One of the first AVM stroke survivors, she was kept alive by machines for one month, and spent seven months voiceless. She lived in the Boston Center for Independent Living Transitional Housing, and now lives in the community and uses a power wheelchair. Dearborn has had gigs doing "sit-down comedy" at neighborhood, heath care, disability, and gay and lesbian grou...