Dr. Walton is Founder, President & CEO of The Divas With Disabilities Project (DWD). At the young age of 18, Donna R. Walton's dreams of being a dancer, a singer, and an actress were shattered when she was diagnosed with life-threatening cancer and had to have her left leg amputated to save her life.

As she struggled for decades to return to a "normal" life, she learned—despite disasters, setbacks, trials and tribulations—how to survive and even thrive with a disability.

Through the power of reinvention, working with other amputees, receiving national recognition from the National Disability Institute, and being featured on C-SPAN for her community-building projects surrounding the beauty of being a black woman with a disability, Walton got a new lease on life.