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Our mission at Straight Ahead Pictures is to create innovative media projects and educational forums that use archival materials and oral history to foster community dialogue about contemporary social issues. Founded in 1989, and awarded non-profit 501-c-3 status then, since 2000, Straight Ahead has functioned as the sponsor of The Disability History Museum.The Disability History Museum's mission is to foster a deeper understanding about how changing cultural values, notions of identity, laws and policies have shaped and influenced the experience of people with disabilities, their families and their communities over time.As Executive Director of Straight Ahead Pictures, Block oversees all the organization's projects including the Disability History Museum. Her work in disability history includes the four hour NPR radio series, Beyond Affliction: the Disability History Project, winner of the 1999 Robert Kennedy Radio Journalism Award, produced with Jay Allison; and currently a project for the American Masters TV series called Becoming Helen Keller. Her award-winning film, FIT: Episodes in The History of The Body, was broadcast on PBS. Block was a founding board member of the Disability History Association. She also served as an advisor to the Vermont based Community Genetics and Ethics Project.