George Gallego

GEORGE GALLEGO is the founder and CEO of Wheels of Progress. He has lived with a spinal cord injury since 1992. Meet George Gallego, a man on a mission to help the thousands of disabled people who are stuck in nursing homes unable to go home due to i...

GEORGE GALLEGO is the founder and CEO of Wheels of Progress. He has lived with a spinal cord injury since 1992. Meet George Gallego, a man on a mission to help the thousands of disabled people who are stuck in nursing homes unable to go home due to in accessibility. A freak accident at the age of 23 ended George's carefree lifestyle of playing ball, skiing, swimming and camping. The former circulation manager of a major newspaper fell the equivalent of three stories after stumbling through a railing at a Manhattan warehouse. He severed his spinal cord and was paralyzed from the waist down.