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A disability-rights activist or disability-rights advocate is someone who works towards the equality of people with disabilities. Such a person is generally considered a member of the disability-rights movement and/or theindependent-living movement.
- Javed Abidi – Director of the National Centre for Promotion of Employment for Disabled People (NCPEDP) inIndia[1]
- Gabriela Brimmer – had cerebral palsy; life chronicled in the American-Mexican drama film Gaby: A True Story (1987), directed by Luis Mandoki[2]
- Jane Campbell, Baroness Campbell of Surbiton – had spinal muscular atrophy and was a commissioner of the British Disability Rights Commission[3]
- Judi Chamberlin – American activist, leader, organizer, public speaker and educator in the psychiatric survivors movement; her political activism followed her involuntary confinement in a psychiatric facility in the 1960s[4][5] the author of On Our Own: Patient-Controlled Alternatives to the Mental Health System, which is a foundational text in the Mad Pride movement[6]
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