Anjali Forber-Pratt inspires fourth, fifth, and sixth graders

Anjali Forber-Pratt, a Paralympic athlete and a professor at Vanderbilt University, spoke to fourth, fifth, and sixth graders this morning as part of Tenacre’s “Flexibility” theme for 2016-2017. Forber-Pratt, who has been paralyzed from the waist down since she contracted transverse myelitis as an infant, was inspired by the Boston Marathon wheelchair race when she was five years old. She decided then that she wanted to try wheelchair racing. “I realized I could live a life and have dreams, even though I have a disability,” she told the Tenacre audience. “It opened my eyes to possibilities.”