April 22, 2002
Another Top Disability Rights Advocate Joins AUTONOMY Board
Susan Webb, one of the most successful and prominent disability rights advocates in the country, has become the newest member of the Board of Directors of AUTONOMY, Inc., a disability rights organization that supports choices for people with disabilities in all aspects of life, including the end of life.
AUTONOMY President Andrew Batavia stated "We are deeply honored to have Susan on our Board; she is a remarkable advocate for the rights of people with disabilities and their inclusion as full autonomous citizens in the mainstream of our society."
Webb serves as Director of Employment Services of the Phoenix-based Arizona Bridge to Independent Living (ABIL). Previously, as executive director, she built ABIL into one of the largest, most innovative independent living centers in the U.S. In 1988, President Reagan appointed her to the U.S. Architectural and Transportation Barriers Compliance Board, where she chaired the development of the ADA Accessibility Guidelines. Currently, she is one of twelve citizens appointed by the President and Congress to the Work Incentives Advisory Panel established by the Ticket to Work and Work Incentives Improvement Act of 1999. She has also served on the Board of the National Council on Independent Living.
In becoming the newest member of the AUTONOMY Board, Webb joins several other prominent members of the disability community. They include a former executive director of the National Council on Disability who has served on the staffs of the White House and the Senate, a former Director of the National Institute on Disability and Rehabilitation Research, an award-winning author and historian of disability issues, a world-renowned rehabilitation physician, a former president of the National Disability Bar Association, and a key Oregon state grassroots organizer of the disability community. All have substantial disabilities and support the right to autonomy for all people with disabilities.
AUTONOMY recently filed an amicus brief in support of Oregon and other plaintiffs in Oregon v. Ashcroft, which was decided in its favor last Wednesday. The organization supports the efforts of people with disabilities to live and work with autonomy, with the aid of personal assistance services, assistive technology and other supports if needed.
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