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Our Mission

The Emergent Institute (“TEI”) supports literary, visual, and performing artists with special needs as they pursue self-sufficiency through their chosen educational, employment and entrepreneurial ventures. TEI also serves as a business incubator developing for-profit companies that provide innovative, adaptive / assistive technologies designed to enable persons with disabilities to overcome obstacles as they strive to improve the quality of their lives.

“My success is not defined by doing what others may consider to be great. But rather, by doing what I know to be right.” - Don Whittecar, TEI Founder