Lorraine is an entrepreneur and business owner born in Conway, Arkansas. Lorraine served on the staff of Congressman Ed Bethune in Washington DC after college. She has been recognized for her work in marketing/communications for local television, non-profit hospitals, for-profit healthcare systems and national non-profits.

Lorraine is an industry leader dedicated to disability advocacy and recognized a 2022 Top 20 influencers across travel, hospitality and real estate.

Lorraine’s newest endeavor, Becoming rentABLE, is designed create, educate and promote accessible rental properties for people with mobility, vision, hearing, intellectual and developmental disabilities (IDD) and for individuals on the autism spectrum of autism.

Lorraine is married with two grown sons and shares every chair and lap in the house with two spoiled Maine Coon cats.

General exterior accessible features include: ramp, hard surface driveway, wheelchair van parking, clear path from parking area to door, keyless locks, secondary child safety lock on exit doors, 36” doorways throughout,

Interior accessible features include: zero threshold through out, lever handles through out, wheelchair accessible electrical/USB outlet thought out, lowered / raised light switch/outlets, hard surface flooring,

Kitchen accessible features include: wheel-under kitchen table, wheel-under kitchen sink, accessible microwave, wheel-under accessible stove, wheel-under accessible oven, elevated dishwasher, accessible toe kick area and coffee bar section, wheelchair accessible open pantry pull-out drawers, front loading dishwasher,

Bathroom accessible features include: wheel-under bathroom sink, lever faucet handles, accessible mirror, electric lift toilet, toilet grab bars, roll-in shower, shower grab bars, hand held shower head, mounted shower bench, 2 linear shower drains, rolling shower chair,

Bedroom accessible features include: adjustable bed in both bedrooms, electrical/USB outlet reachable from bed, black out rolling blinds, black out curtains,

Non-mobility accessible features include; noise machine, safety covers on outlets, locked chemical storage, NO fluorescent lighting are used though out, dimmer switches throughout, night lights, TVs securely anchored to the wall, black out curtains in the bedrooms and living room, weighted blanket, strobing alarms/audio alarm detectors outside glider,