Imparato had no idea that he was
bipoloar during his formative years. “[Today] I would associate it with
depression, but I didn’t have a word for it,” he says. “I thought it was like feelings of guilt.” Imparato’s mother was a fashion
editor, and his father a publisher in Beverly Hills, Calif., and he entertained thoughts of becoming a journalist. But he decided on law after a summer in Rome studying the Italian Renaissance. At Stanford Law School, he
became friends with a group of politically progressive classmates who wanted to change the world and inspired him to go into public interest law. During his second year of law school he experienced his first episode of depression, leading to a clinical diagnosis. Tat episode was, he says, perhaps his worst. “It all happened very quickly. I had
trouble getting out of bed and very little self-esteem,” he says.
He’s a living example of how those
with depression can have very success- ful and productive careers. “I’ve been blessed by the fact that
it’s a relatively predictable thing,” he says. “I have a lot of energy, a lot of self-confidence, not a lot of patience, for about five or six months, and then when I’m depressed I don’t have much energy or self-confidence.” Tough not averse to using medica-
tion to treat depression, he says it hasn’t worked for him. “Te way I have managed it is
having work that is fulfilling,” he says, describing his work as his strongest antidepressant. “Feeling that I can make a difference for someone else, that helps me know I’m not as worthless as I feel when I’m depressed. Work also creates an outlet that I can put the high energy into something productive.” After law school, he moved to
Boston in 1990 where he became involved in the disability rights
movement as a staff attorney for the Disability Law Center, Inc., advocating for children and adults with disabilities and educating individuals, families, and disability groups about their rights under public benefit programs. After two years at the Disability
Law Center, Imparato moved to the nation’s capital and did his first stint as a legislative counselor for the U.S. Senate Committee on Labor and Human Resources, where Sen. Harkin was chairman of the subcom- mittee on disability policy. Imparato followed that with positions at the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission and the National Council on Disability as a legal adviser for disability issues. In 1999, Imparato took the helm
of AAPD, founded four years earlier to “unite the diverse community of people with disabilities, including our families, friends, and supporters, and to be a national voice for change in implementing the goals of the
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