n my day job, I am the youth leadership coordinator for Access Living in Chicago, where I train and organize youth with disabilities. I am also the co-coordinator for Chicago ADAPT, part of the ADAPT national grassroots network dedicated to getting people out of institutions and into their own homes through direct action and policy making. And, I am also a co-founder and member of Feminist Response in Disability Activism (FRIDA), a grassroots group of women with disabilities taking action on issues that affect us since 2005. See www.adapt.org and www.ourfrida.org. I have a severe hearing loss and grew up oral in mainstream schools. At the age of 20 I became involved with the Deaf community and began learning ASL. My first job involving disability rights was in college at the Disability Rights Movement Archive at UC Berkeley.
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