Josie Badger, Ms. Wheelchair America 2012, will be a special guest at the VGM Heartland Conference June 4-7 in Waterloo, Iowa. She will be present at the hog roast, during exhibition hall hours at Five Sullivan Brothers Convention Center, and will also be part of a luncheon workshop. Badger is working on her doctoral dissertation in health care ethics at Duquesne University. She is a Certified Rehabilitation Counselor, and graduated summa cum laude from Geneva College, where she majored in disability law and advocacy.