Leadership

Governance – National:

ADA Watch and the National Coalition for Disability Rights were founded by disability rights advocate, Jim Ward. Consistent with the disability rights slogan, “Nothing About Us Without Us!,” at least a majority of our Board of Directors and National Advisory Council, as well as the NCDR Steering Committee members are people with disabilities. Founded as ADA Watch in 2001, our first Chairman was the late disability rights icon, Justin Dart.

The NCDR Board of Directors and National Advisory Council are comprised of national disability and allied organizations and recognized national, state and local disability rights leaders:

NCDR Board of Directors and National Advisory Council
(*) indicates Board Member

Nan Aron
Alliance for Justice

Ron Bassman*
NARPA

Robert Bernstein
Bazelon Center for Mental Health Law

Marca Bristo
Access Living

The Honorable Tony Coelho
Former Member of Congress

Bobby Coward*
Capital Area ADAPT

Len Doran*
The Wexford Group

Curtis Decker*
National Disability Rights Network
Consortium of Citizens with Disabilities

Kyle Glozier
National Disabled Student Union

Claudia Gordon
National Black Deaf Advocates

Susan Henderson*
Disability Rights Education and
Defense Fund

Wade Henderson
Leadership Conference on Civil Rights

The Honorable Judith Heumann

Bob Kafka*
ADAPT

Janine Bertram Kemp*
Cedar Media

John Lancaster
National Council on Independent Living

Ralph Neas
People For the American Way

David Oaks
MindFreedom International

Mike Oxford
NCIL, ADAPT, TILRC

Lee Page*
Paralyzed Veterans of America

Brewster Thackeray*
AARP

Debra Robinson
Speaking For Ourselves

Phil Sparks
Communications Consortium Media Center

Nancy Starnes*
National Organization on Disability

Betsy Valnes
National Youth Leadership Network

Jim Ward*
National Coalition for Disability Rights

Tony Young
NISH

Governance – State and Local:

NCDR is the association of statewide cross-disability coalitions. NCDR supports capacity-building of existing state coalitions and disseminates best practice methods for the development of new statewide coalitions. Local organizations are signed-on as dual members of NCDR and their respective state coalition.

NCDR’s State Coalition Steering Committee consists of the leaders of statewide cross-disability coalitions. At least a majority of the NCDR State Coalition Steering Committee is comprised of people with disabilities.

These state coalitions are represented in seven geographic regions:

NCDR State Membership & Governance Regions

Region 1: California, Nevada, Oregon, Washington, Idaho, Montana, Wyoming, Alaska, Hawaii

Region 2: Arizona, Utah, New Mexico, Texas, Colorado, Kansas, Oklahoma, Arkansas

Region 3: Nebraska, South Dakota, North Dakota, Minnesota, Iowa, Wisconsin, Michigan

Region 4: Missouri, Illinois, Indiana, Ohio, Kentucky, Tennessee

Region 5: Louisiana, Mississippi, Alabama, Florida, Georgia, South Carolina North Carolina

Region 6: Virginia, West Virginia, Maryland, Delaware, Washington, DC, Pennsylvania, New Jersey

Region 7: New York, Connecticut, Rhode Island, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, Vermont, Maine

NCDR State Coalition Steering Committee

Catherine Blakemore
California Respect-Ability Coalition

Dennis Borel
Coalition of Texans with Disabilities

Lynn Breedlove
Survival Coalition of
Wisconsin Disability Coalitions

Sharon Fields
Kentucky Disabilities Coalition

Stan Kosloski
Connecticut Disability Advocacy
Collaborative

Bill Olsen
Oregon Cross-Disability Coalition

Jim Moench
North Dakota Disabilities Advocacy
Consortium

Carol Westlake
Tennessee Disability Coalition

Mary Troupe
Mississippi Coalition for Citizens
with Disabilities

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