College of Adaptive Arts Co-founder Dr. Pamela Lindsay Recognized for Her Efforts in Providing Higher Education to Adults with Disabilities
WASHINGTON – Today, AARP announced its 2024 AARP Purpose Prize Award recipients. The one-of-a-kind national award honors people age 50-plus who have proven that they are using their knowledge and life experience to make a difference.
Dr. Pamela Lindsay, co-founder of the College of Adaptive Arts, was recognized as one of 15 non-profit founders chosen throughout the country who are giving back to their communities.
College of Adaptive Arts (CAA), a Bay Area based educational non-profit, is an organization providing collegiate education to adults with intellectual and developmental disabilities. It centers on the concept of lifelong learning and serves more than 224 adult students across 9 states.
CAA was co-founded by Dr. Pamela Lindsay and DeAnna Pursai in 2009 after both witnessed loved ones with special needs become sidelined once they exited the public-school system.
“I am so honored to be recognized as an AARP Purpose Prize® Award Fellow,” said Dr. Pamela Lindsay. “I know firsthand that the pursuit of our dreams and passions are not limited by the number of birthdays we celebrate. CAA is rooted in the knowledge that continued learning and related community contribution at any age increases personal purpose, life satisfaction, and success.”