About Us

ADAWatch.org is a project of:

The National Coalition for Disability Rights (NCDR)
601Pennsylvania Avenue, NW, Suite 900S
Washington, DC 20004
Website: www.adawatch.org
Email: jimward@ncdr.org
Voice: 202-448-9928

 

ADA Watch/NCDR Board of Directors*
and National Advisory Council Members:

Jim Ward* President and Founder

Curt Decker* Co-Chair
National Disability Rights Network, CCD

Nancy Starnes* Co-Chair
National Organization Disability

Nan Aron
Alliance for Justice

Robert Bernstein
Bazelon Center for Mental Health Law

Janine Bertram Kemp*
Disability Rights Center

Marca Bristo
Access Living

Honorable Tony Coelho
Former U.S. Congressman

Robert Coward*
Capitol Area ADAPT

Len Doran*
The Wexford Group

Kyle Glozier
National Disabled Student Union

Claudia Gordon
National Black Deaf Advocates

Wade Henderson
Leadership Conference on Civil Rights

Ron Bassman*
National Association for
Rights Protection and Advocacy

Honorable Judith Heumann

John Lancaster
National Council on Independent Living

Ralph G. Neas
People For the American Way

Tom Olin
Photographer and Social Documentarian

Mike Oxford
NCIL, ADAPT, TILRC

Lee Page*
Paralyzed Veterans of America

Debra Robinson
Speaking For Ourselves

Marcie Roth*
National Spinal Cord Injury Network

Brewster Thackeray*
AARP

Betsy Valnes
National Youth Leadership Network

Patrisha Wright
Disability Rights Education and
Defense Fund

Tony Young
NISH, CCD

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ACTION ALERTS

Support Community Choice Act

The ADAPT Community wants you to Kick-Off the Introduction of the Community Choice Act on on March 24th!  We want YOU to celebrate the introduction of the most important health care reform for people with disabilities in this country — Community Choice Act!

We intend to give all of you the opportunity to be connected directly to the chamber [...]

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