Meeting a Born Just Right Hallmark Master Artist
Art and design can be seen and accomplished in so many ways. When you add in a physical difference, it gives more perspective and it doesn’t have to prevent you from doing your best. It might actually mean you do it even better! That’s what we’ve learned in our years of knowing Tammy Haddix. She’s…
Read More +Find Jordan in American Girl Magazine
After years and years of enjoying her American Girl dolls, American Girl books and leading a huge campaign on Change.org to encourage American Girl to consider adding limb difference options to its Truly Me doll line, Jordan is now in the September/October 2017 magazine. A while back this summer, Jordan had a chance to tell…
Read More +Born Just Right Pitches SXSW 2018
The last time I talked about disability on a panel at South by Southwest (better known at SXSW) was back in 2012. It was a fabulous conversation that helped me see how technology might be used to help bridge the information gaps between the many different disability communities. As I’ve grown with Jordan, we’ve seen…
Read More +Superhero Cyborgs Assemble Once Again
In one day, eight kids turned themselves into the ultimate superhero upgrades this weekend in the Boston area. It’s amazing to see what we were able to do in one day. With the support of an amazing group of organizations, eight kids gathered at Canopy City in Somerville, Massachusetts to learn how to bring design…
Read More +25,000 Signatures To Change The Toy Industry
We did it! Jordan’s ongoing push to petition American Girl to include limb difference options with its Truly Me line of dolls just hit 25,000 signatures! 25,000! Thanks to you, this was possible. In the time it took to launch this petition and get to 25,000 signatures, Born Just Right has evolved into a nonprofit.…
Read More +Microsoft’s Xbox Prosthetic Avatars Need Better Game Settings
This week is huge in the video game world. The E3 Expo is underway and I’ve had a chance to watch it closely because Jordan’s brother, Cameron, is an avid gamer who loves to follow the industry. He has stepped away from the Xbox and invested in a PS4 so we aren’t able to enjoy…
Read More +How Four Days Can Impact a Lifetime
Jordan and I wrapped up our visit to Camp No Limits Missouri this week. It was one for the record books. We had many, many new families and some of the best weather camp has seen in years. This was Jordan’s ninth year attending the camp and it’s stunning how impactful the experience has been…
Read More +Watch Jordan’s TEDx Talk
After a long wait, we can finally share the video fo Jordan’s TEDx Talk during TEDxCoMo. She wishes you could hear more of the audience chuckles but either way, I’m proud of her for speaking on a big stage in front of a lot of people. She had a chance to speak her mind and…
Read More +Superhero Cyborgs is Back for One Day
Get your superhero brainstorming helmets on! Born Just Right is teaming up with KIDmob and Helping Hands Foundation to host a one-day mini-Superhero Cyborgs camp to introduce the concepts Jordan used that led to Project Unicorn! We are crazy excited. Here’s the plan. Many kids and families have a chance to attend the Helping Hands…
Read More +The End of the Elementary School Era
I still clearly remember Jordan’s first day of Kindergarten. I was so strong in front of her. We walked to school with Cameron and other kids in the neighborhood. There was picture time with the kids in front of the school. Randy and I helped Jordan sit down with other new Kindergarteners in the hallway…
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