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About Frank Kineavy

Frankie Kineavy is a proud Villanova University graduate and lifelong disability advocate who has spent his career defying expectations and redefining what's possible. Born with Cerebral Palsy, he is non-verbal and uses a wheelchair, circumstances that have shaped not only his perspective, but his purpose.

Frankie launched his professional career at DiversityInc, a leading diversity data platform and media ecosystem, where he spent 5 years writing about workplace inclusion. His coverage spanned the accessibility challenges facing people with disabilities in both the corporate world and the entertainment industry.

Driven by a desire to create opportunity rather than just write about it, Frankie founded Let's Be Frank, an employment agency dedicated to connecting people with disabilities and veterans to meaningful careers. Through partnerships with universities and the Wounded Warrior Project, Let's Be Frank worked to identify and place candidates who, like Frankie himself, had too often been overlooked.

Frankie has also embarked on projects in the arts. In 2024, he wrote the stage play, First Aide. Forged from his own experiences, the work confronted the very real challenges and hard-won victories of building a meaningful life with a disability. The play premiered in 2024 at the Spring Lake Community Theater in Spring Lake, New Jersey, where the theater donated the proceeds directly toward Frankie's next ambition of bringing the story to the screen.

In the winter of 2025, Frankie made his solo producing debut, assembling a team of skilled filmmakers to adapt First Aide into a short proof-of-concept film titled The Wheel Deal. The result earned a nomination for Best Short Form Series Pilot at the 2025 SOHO International Film Festival in New York City. Frankie is now developing The Wheel Deal into a full television series.

Aside from his professional life, Frankie has always been involved in sports. During his time at Villanova, he worked under Hall of Fame coach Jay Wright as men's basketball manager at Villanova, then spent six years as Director of Football Operations at The Peddie School in Hightstown, New Jersey. That legacy is now immortalized in the 2025 book Frankie co-authored with his coach, titled The ChairLeader, which chronicles the indelible mark he left on the program.