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who is rachel simon?

Writer and motivational speaker Rachel Simon's widely acclaimed memoir, Riding the Bus with My Sister, is a profoundly engaging story about two very different sisters. Beth has developmental disabilities and spends her days riding city buses. Rachel is a busy author and professor at Bryn Mawr College. Beth convinces Rachel to spend a year riding the buses-a year that changes both sisters? lives.

The book was made into a Hallmark Hall of Fame Presentation starring Rosie O'Donnell and Andie MacDowell. Anjelica Huston directed. It aired on May 1, 2005 on CBS.

Rachel is a motivational speaker for the public and community transportation industry, the disability community, schools and businesses focusing on diversity issues, and people interested in changing their own lives. She is a recipient of Secretary Tommy Thompson?s Recognition Award from the US Department of Health and Human Services. Her memoir has won a TASH Image Award for positive portrayals of people with disabilities, an American Book Award for outstanding literary achievement from the Before Columbus Foundation and a Dr. and Mrs. William Bell Distin- guished Service award for dedication to community transportation.

Distributed by the Community Transportation Association of America.

© 2004 by Rachel Simon. All rights reserved. No part of this presentation may be reproduced in any form by any means without express written permission of the author. To request reproduction information, contact the author at www.rachelsimon.com.