Keynote Speaker
David Harrell is a speaker and disability advocate, originally from Brunswick, Georgia. He uses his hysterical comedic sensibilities, powerful stories and a crazy cast of characters from his life’s journey growing up with a disability to challenge audiences to not let circumstances peel away the core of their humanity.
His keynote presentation, Navigating a Two-handed World…Single Handedly, takes aspects of his successful solo show to “carry each and every audience member into a world of hope; a world full of the complexities of the human condition.” His clients have included; The Binghamton University Forum, The US Department of the Interior, G-CASE (Georgia Council of Administrators of Special Education), College of Coastal Georgia, Savannah and Chatham County Schools, Coffee County (GA) Board of Education, Floyd County (GA) Board of Education, GA Dept. of Education Parent Mentor Conference, GEAR Summer Institute, Ohio Association of School Nurses and St. Joseph’s College.
David’s unique and powerful life story reminds us that we will all face challenges in our lives. People will try to place limitations on our abilities and we may even place limitations on ourselves but we do have a choice to not be defined by these limitations. We can choose to live our lives with dignity and courage; we can choose to navigate the world in our own unique way and as David’s grandfather told him many years ago, we can all be little potatoes and hard to peel.
