Self-Advocacy and Beyond: Interviews with Leaders of the Self-Advocacy Movement

Watch video interviews with 5 Leaders of the Self-Advocacy movement. Click on the person’s name and you will go to the page with their video.

• Lydia X. Z. Brown is a lawyer, advocate, organizer, and writer whose work has focused on violence against disabled people in schools, institutions, prisons, and by police.
• Randy Lizotte lives with his wife in St Albans, Vermont. He works full time as a peer advocate for a provider of developmental services. Randy has worked as a consultant and trainer for Green Mountain Self-Advocates traveling across the country providing technical assistance and training to state self-advocacy organizations.
• Bryon Murray lives in Utah. He was a board member for Self Advocates Becoming Empowered (SABE) for 8 years.
• Tia Nelis is the new Director of Policy & Advocacy for TASH.  She is one of the past chairperson of the National Organization of Self-Advocates Becoming Empowered. She founded and successfully promoted People First of Illinois, where she served as president.
• Nancy Ward was a founding chair of Self Advocates Becoming Empowered (SABE), a national self-advocacy organization, and is respected nationally as a leader in the people-first movement.