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A disability-rights activist or disability-rights advocate is someone who works towards the equality of people with disabilities. Such a person is generally considered a member of the disability-rights movement and/or the independent-living movement. A Javed Abidi – Director of the National Centre for Promotion of Employment for Disabled People (NCPEDP) in India Noor Al Mazroei - chef and disability rights activist from Qatar. Hiljmnijeta Apuk – founding director of the Little People of Kosovo Abia Akram - disability rights activist from Pakistan. She is the founder of the National Forum of Women with Disabilities in Pakistan and a prominent figure in the disability rights movement in the country, as well as in Asia and the Pacific. She was named as one of the BBC's 100 Women in 2021. Fatima al-Aqel – opened a school for blind women in Yemen in 1995. Ola Abu Alghaib – disability activist from Palestine, focusses on inclusion, gender and disability rights.B Mel Baggs – autism rights activist and blogger Safiya al Bahlani – Omani artist, graphic designer, disability rights activist, and motivational speaker Jamala al-Baidhani – created the Al-Tahadi Association for Disabled Females, the first group in Yemen devoted to helping girls with disabilities Julia Bascom – autism rights activist and executive director of the Autistic Self-Advocacy Network Andrew Batavia – ADA regulations drafter, co-founder AUTONOMY, Inc. Giselle Bellas – Cuban-American singer-songwriter Alzheimer's disease and Alzheimer's dementia advocate. She collaborates with various Alzheimer's awareness organizations, and in honor of her grandmother who died due to the disease, released a song about her. Sister Sponsa Beltran – worked with children and people with disabilities in Liberia. Dana Bolles - spaceflight engineer and advocate for those with disabilities in STEM. Tiffany Brar founder of Jyothirgamaya Foundation, a not for profit NGO for visually impaired Gabriela Brimmer – had cerebral palsy; life chronicled in the American-Mexican drama film Gaby: A True Story (1987), directed by Luis Mandoki Marca Bristo – cofounded the (American) National Council on Independent Living (NCIL) with Max Starkloff and Charlie Carr Lydia Brown – autism advocate and writer Sheletta Brundidge - children's author and autism advocateC Jane Campbell, Baroness Campbell of Surbiton – commissioner of the British Disability Rights Commission Charlie Carr – cofounder of National Council on Independent Living, Boston Center for Independent Living and founder and CEO of The Northeast Independent Living Program in Lawrence, Massachusetts; went on to become Commissioner of the Massachusetts Rehabilitation Commission under Governor Deval Patrick Liz Carr – British actress, comedian, broadcaster and international disability rights activist Bob Casey, Jr. – United States Senator from Pennsylvania, widely recognized as a leading advocate for people with disabilities expansion of Medicaid home and community-based services. Mama Cax – American-Haitian model and disabled rights activist Judi Chamberlin – American activist, leader, organizer, public speaker and educator in the psychiatric survivors movement; her political activism followed her involuntary confinement in a psychiatric facility in the 1960s the author of On Our Own: Patient-Controlled Alternatives to the Mental Health System, which is a foundational text in the Mad Pride movement James I. Charlton – activist and author of Nothing About Us Without Us María Soledad Cisternas – Chilean disability rights activist, member of the committee that drafted the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities and served as the chairperson on the Committee on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities; in 2017, was appointed the Special Envoy on Disability and Accessibility for the United Nations Claudia Cockburn – British activist for transportation accessibility Tony Coelho – former congressman from California, primary author and U.S. House sponsor of the Americans with Disabilities Act Rebecca Cokley – Executive Director of the National Council on Disability Cäsar Jacobson – Norwegian-Canadian. Bilaterally Deaf activist & United Nations Youth Champion, this person is a registered Health Care Worker focusing on Equality & Disability Rights Activism Kitty Cone – disability rights activist and staff member of the Disability Rights Education and Defense Fund Lois Curtis – American activist and the lead plaintiff in a U.S. Supreme Court case about unjustified segregation of people with disabilities in healthcare institutionsD Paul Darke – British academic and international disability rights activist Justin Whitlock Dart Jr. – co-founder of the American Association of People with Disabilities Nyle DiMarco – activist and spokesperson for LEAD-K, 'Language Equality and Acquisition for Deaf Kids' campaign for American Sign Language and English in education setting D. P. Sharma – Indian disability rights activist working for equal opportunity in education, tech enabled education access, and transformation in education and employment policies Rich Donovan – economist and founder of the Return On Disability Index Theresa Ducharme – founder of the disabled-rights advocacy group People in Equal Participation Inc. in 1981; the organization's chair for many years thereafter April Dunn – helped pass Act 833 in Louisiana which helped provide alternatives to graduation for students who cannot pass the standardized testsE Anne Emerman - director of the New York City Mayor's Office for Disabilities (MOPD) during the administration of David Dinkins. Dominick Evans – filmmaker, activist, founder of #FilmDis. Media & Entertainment advocate for Center for Disability Rights in New York. Edward Evans – Chairman of the UK Ministry of Health Health Advisory Committee on Handicapped Persons from 1949 to 1960F Fred Fay – American advocate for disabled persons. Chai Feldblum – lead attorney on legal team that drafted the Americans with Disabilities Act of 1990. Julie Fernandez – actress with osteogenesis imperfecta; founded The Disability Foundation; active on presentation of disabled people. Catherine Frazee – co-director of Ryerson University's Institute for Disability Studies Research and Education Lex Frieden – Chairman of the National Council on Disability from 2002 to 2006; key developer of the Americans with Disabilities Act. Judy Fryd – founded group in 1946 for parents of children with a learning disability; the group later became Mencap Vic Finkelstein – South African born activist and academic, pioneer of the social model of disabilityG Haben Girma – first deafblind graduate of Harvard Law School Marilyn Golden – disability transportation activist Miro Griffiths – disabled academic and activist Chen Guangcheng – Chinese civil rights activistH Laura Hershey – protested MDA Labor Day Telethon; a feminist born with a form of muscular dystrophy Judith Heumann – wheelchair user who co-fou.... Discover the Claudia Kalb popular books. Find the top 100 most popular Claudia Kalb books.

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