Justin Bainbridge

Justin has been a disability advocate since the Spring of 1990 when at 10 months of age he showed students that a baby with Down syndrome is just a baby. Justin continues to speak to hundreds of students and adults about his life as an adult with Down syndrome every year since1990. His accomplishments that he shares includes the following:

• Working in competitive employment since June, 2010 thus paying taxes. He currently works at Millard North High School, his alma mater.

  
  

• Living in a market rate apartment since January, 2014 with his best friend who also has Down syndrome.

  
  

• Enjoying life as an adult which can include dating and drinking alcohol.

  
  

• Continuing his advocacy through Kids on the Block by showing that adults with disabilities can be puppeteers.

  
  

• Promoting an important message about bullying through Kids on the Block.

“He is more like you than different.”