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Harry Murphy - 2000 Catalyst Award Recipient

Picture of Harry Murphy.

The namesake and inspiration for this award is Dr. Harry J. Murphy, the founder and past Director of the Center on Disabilities at California State University, Northridge (CSUN).

Among numerous other accomplishments, Dr. Murphy was the catalyst for CSUN's "Technology and Persons with Disabilities" conference, the longest-running and largest annual university-sponsored conference on technology and persons with disabilities. He is well known as an international spokesman for people with disabilities, and has received recognition in the United States from the National Council on Disability for his "outstanding leadership and services in the use of technology for people with disabilities."

The award is not given for Harry's role as the originator of CSUN however, but rather for his untiring efforts throughout the year to bring together and connect people from different countries. In particular his efforts to link together new people from different countries and give them entrée and introduction to people and groups they would not otherwise have had. For his continuing efforts to enable others and help connect us all, we honor Dr. Murphy with this award.