Stanford Conference on Disability in Healthcare and Medicine | MSDCI and SMADIE
Stanford Conference on Disability in Healthcare and Medicine | MSDCI and SMADIE
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Associate Executive Director of External Affairs
Disability Rights California
Eric Harris is Disability Right California’s Associate Executive Director of External Affairs with an extensive career working closely with disability leaders, community members, and elected officials throughout the country to progress change for the disability community. Harris brings significant local, state and federal policy experience having worked for Congresswoman Barbara Lee, the Democratic National Committee, and the NAACP of California.
He started his time at DRC in 2019, working in the policy and Strategic Partnerships and Community Engagement units. He grew up in Sacramento, California, and was an elite wheelchair basketball player. “Creating public policy that improves the lives of people with disabilities has been my life’s mission. I look forward to working closely with intersectional disability leaders throughout the state to improve the lives of all people with disabilities.
Software Developer
Mrs. Maury worked on NASA contracts during and right after college, then attended graduate school in poetry and switched to freelance writing. While working for a magazine, she started programming again. Then she moved into technical writing and editing, and finally went back to computer programming, earning an MS in engineering and computer science. While in graduate school, she endured many, many professors who hated providing disability accommodations; and she encountered the same when she taught college as an adjunct. In grad school at Hopkins, she began to advocate for disabled students as a means to survive her own classes, finally realizes that while academia has few true disability advocates, the Maryland State Legislature has many.
She worked with other disabled students in higher education to organize meetings with politicians, culminating in a meeting with Governor Moore’s cabinet members and a bill to require mandatory ADA training for all instructors at Maryland State Schools. The bill died in committee, but elected officials indicate they are willing to try again.
Senior Attorney Advisor
National Council on Disability
Amged Soliman is a Senior Attorney Advisor at the National Council on Disability (NCD), an independent federal agency. He is a member of the Maryland State Bar. His work at NCD has involved, among others, serving as the staff lead of NCD’s health disparities initiatives, including related issues of improved medical and dental school disability clinical care and competency training, Medicaid coverage, and data collection.
