Leading by Example: Steve Mikita on Life with SMA

In this video from the DNA Learning Center shared in July 2012, attorney Steve Mikita recalls attending Duke University and then taking the bar exam as an adult with type 3 spinal muscular atrophy (SMA).

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Mikita was so determined to attend a “normal” college, and not one specifically geared for people with disabilities, that in 1974 he became the first freshman in a wheelchair to be accepted at Duke.  Mikita never let SMA get in the way of his life so he devised ways to get around any problems — he is now an Assistant Attorney General for the state of Utah.

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