Former JDCC News youth columnist Adam Stone of Del Mar, CA was recently mentioned in the August 9th edition of the Washington Post as one of three disabled students doing an internship with Booz-Allen & Hamilton, Inc. in McLean, VA. An amateur actor and playwright, Adam M. Stone is currently enrolled at the National Technical Institute for the Deaf (NTID) at Rochester Institute of Technology. During his stint at Booz-Allen, a global management and technology consulting firm who has started an “emerging leaders” program to prepare promising students with disabilities for leadership roles, Stone has been assigned to their disabilities consulting practice. “This is a win-win program,” says Booz-Allen community relations manager Barbara Haight, “It helps students get a jump-start into leadership-oriented careers, and it helps dispel people’s stereotypes of employees with disabilities.”