Post Date: Mar 31, 2026
By Cierra Duncan March 31, 2026
On a November night in 1967, Lex Frieden, MA, was a freshman in college riding back to campus with friends. What happened next would change his life forever.
“We had a head-on impact,” Frieden recalled. “Everybody jumped out of the cars, and I was still in the back seat and couldn’t move.” An X-ray later confirmed a broken neck. The injury left him without the use of his arms or legs.
The ENGAGED Center is an NIH-Funded Medical Rehabilitation Research and Resource Center designed to respond to this need through capacity‑building initiatives and original research.
This webinar will highlight:
Paycom Payroll, LLC, an Oklahoma software company specializing in payroll and human capital software, violated federal law when it failed to provide effective reasonable accommodations to an employee with a life‑threatening food allergy and fired her instead, the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) charged in a lawsuit announced today.
Dr. Purvi Sevak, Senior Director of Mathematica’s Disability Practice, discusses her path from an undergraduate student studying health policy to her work at Mathematica, the evolution and importance of disability employment policy, and her research with the DEP RRTC examining how local infrastructure affects employment opportunities for people with disabilities.