ANNIE DESELERNOS

ADAPTIVE SPORTS SPECIALIST, GRANT WRITER

Annie began working with people with physical, intellectual, or emotional disabilities in 1986. Since that time, she has had the extreme pleasure of working one on one with children, teens, and adults, and injured, ill, and wounded Veterans and First Responders with disabilities in adaptive sports, residential camping, social, and fitness programs.

After 28 years of service to the City of Sacramento, Department of Parks and Recreation, 24 of those with the Access Leisure Division, Annie retired in June of 2019. As the Supervisor for Access Leisure and their Paralympic Sport Sacramento club, she was instrumental in working to create partnerships that allowed them to join forces with such community friends as Shriners Hospitals for Children Northern California, United Cerebral Palsy, and para sports organizations in Lake Tahoe, Mammoth, Silicon Valley, Menlo Park, Santa Cruz, Berkeley, and the Bay Area. Annie was proud to be a member of the River Cats Independence Field Committee.

On behalf of the City of Sacramento, Annie wrote and was responsible for all aspects of the administration and reporting of six grants, totaling $674,462 From the Department of Veterans Affairs, Adaptive Sports Grants. In addition to the Department of Veterans Affairs, Adaptive Sports Grant program, Annie

was contacted in 2012 by the United States Olympic Committee, Paralympic Division, to California to provide a three-day event for 100 injured, ill, and wounded Veterans.