Adena Martinez is a fireball of self-advocacy. She has cerebral palsy, drives a 700 pound power wheelchair, goes to Valley High School in the morning and Southern Indian Polytechnical Institute in the afternoon. Her sister, Kelly Two Crow, has been caring for her the last several years, helping her in the mornings to get bathed and dressed and ready for the bus.

The bus would arrive somewhere between 7 and 7:15 am. On some days it would barely come to a stop, Kelly would run out the door to greet them, but the bus would take off down the street leaving Adena high and dry. Getting to school was so important to Adena that she would call, begging Sun Van, the public bus with a wheelchair lift, to come rescue her and get her to school.

To add to Adena's miseries, the bus driver would say things to Adena that hurt her feelings. The people at the school bus office were getting a different story about Adena. They were told by the bus driver that Adena was an abusive and rude student.

One day Adena took a tape recorder with her and placed it in her pocket, switching it on and recording the bus driver telling her she wasn't good at driving her wheelchair and that she was tired of her and didn't want to drive her to school anymore.

Adena went to her sister, teachers, her aide, counselors, social worker, pychologist and case manager, asking if they would write letters of support for her character. Letters began to pour into Protection and Advocacy.

The school set up a meeting with Adena and the school bus company who, within seconds of hearing the tape, agreed to switch bus companies for Adena so that her last few weeks of high school could be more supportive.