Press & Media Coverage
Selected Videos
Selected Press Coverage
Idaho Professor Sees Merit in Teaching Laughter (Idaho Press, December 22, 2012)
Best Medicine Isn’t Always a Drug (Moscow-Pullman Daily News, December 15, 2014)
Baby Your Baby: Vitamin D During Pregnancy (KUTV News, December 17, 2017)
Remaining Resilient Through COVID-19 (Utah Public Radio, AccessUtah, March 24, 2020)
Utah Should Stay on its Path to Help the Disabled (Salt Lake Tribune, May 25, 2020)
INFocus Discussion: Disability Pride Month (ABC4 News, July 8, 2021)
USU Honors Helps Students with Honors Cares Programming (Utah Statesman, February 10, 2022)
The Healing Power of Laughter Yoga (Utah Statesman, March 12, 2022)
Researcher Exploring the Health Benefits of Laughter Yoga at USU (USU Today, March 17, 2022)
USU Students Learn Laughter Yoga to Cope with Stress (Utah Public Radio, April 15, 2022)
Podcast Episodes
MHDD Mental Health Crossroads Podcast
Interview with David Jones from the Administration on Community Living
Interview with Julie Christensen from the Association of People Supporting Employment First (APSE)
Interview with Mary Giliberti from Mental Health America (MHA)
Interview with Rylin Rodgers from the Association of University Centers on Disability
Utah Public Radio UnDisciplined
Developmental Disabilities Network Journal Author Insights
Interview with Dr. Sarah Behrens on Developmental Monitoring
Interview with Dr. Heather Church and Dr. Jackie McGinley on End of Life Planning for Adults with Disabilities
Other Writing & Blog Posts
Chinese Music Festival
I had the remarkable fortune to grow up in one of the greatest arts communities in the United States. Fairbanks, Alaska, was and is still a thriving mecca for artists of all types. Fairbanks nurtures this vibrant arts scene… Read More
Valuing Food & Cheer in China
Pig noses, duck tongues, chicken feet, oxtail soup, bitter melons, frogs, taro, insects of all kinds, and the best fried rice in the world cooked in a wok, set into an old oil drum, heated by a natural gas burner that sounded like a jet engine… Read More
Why I Believe in What We Do
In October of 1992 I found myself standing on a street corner to the entrance of a morning market in Taipei, Taiwan. It was a strange place for me to find myself… Read More
Poem: “Family Time”
This is a poem that was published in Cirque: A Literary Journal for the North Pacific Rim Volume 2 No. 2, p. 45. You can read the poem here… Read More