Founder’s Blog

Founder’s Blog

This blog contains assorted thoughts, ideas and reflections from founder Christina Maehr. They do not represent any official positions of Everybody Advocate.

Dissism: A New Word We Need?

We need to be able to talk about “discrimination against people with disabilities” in shorter, pithier ways than saying “discrimination against people with disabilities.” That phrase takes half a tweet! But even as a special education advocate, I avoid the term “ableist” and “ableism” because people are confused by it. Even among disability rights advocates, some argue the ableism is only...

Letter from our Founder: Why Everybody Advocate?

As a special education advocate, I started Everybody Advocate because I have a vision of how special education can be… and I think it’s a vision that you may share.