Beyond The Box Advocacy
Disability systems strategy, individual navigation, policy analysis, and public education.
Explore the organizationLilly Grossman
Hello there! I’m a national disability policy entrepreneur, researcher, author, and Founder and CEO of Beyond The Box Advocacy.
I study the policies and systems that shape everyday life for people with disabilities, with a particular interest in making opportunity and essential supports more accessible across life transitions.
About Lilly
I’m ambitious, endlessly curious, and interested in what becomes possible when policy meets the realities of everyday life. My work spans disability systems, individual advocacy, research, public engagement, and writing.
Through Beyond The Box Advocacy, I study structural barriers and help make complicated systems easier to understand. I also write about the stories that policy leaves unfinished.
Read My StoryMy Work
Research, advocacy, and public engagement grounded in the choices people deserve to make.
Research and Ideas
Geographic lock-in, service continuity, structural barriers, and the systems behind opportunity.
Explore my researchSpeaking and Representation
Conversations about policy, leadership, independence, and disability representation.
Speaking and eventsFeatured Stories
Selected writing and conversations about disability policy and systems change.
Forbes
Why Portable Disability Support Is the Next Big Workforce Innovation
A feature on the connection between disability support, mobility, and workforce opportunity.
Read the featureUSC Equity Research Institute
The Case for Continuity
My analysis of how place-based disability services shape education, work, and everyday life.
Read the articlePushing Forward with Alycia
A New Era of Inclusion
A conversation about Beyond The Box Advocacy, storytelling, and disability systems.
Listen to the episodeThe Quiet Parts of Disability
Part memoir and part systems exposé, my book explores what happens after the inspirational story ends, including the policies, expectations, and invisible work that shape everyday life.
Discover the BookLeadership and Recognition
My work has brought me into national disability policy conversations through research, fellowships, advisory roles, and public storytelling. I serve on disability-focused boards and participate in leadership initiatives that connect policy with lived experience.
As Ms. Los Angeles 2026, I also champion disability representation through my See Her. Be Her. platform.
Ms. Los Angeles 2026Work With Lilly
Speaking, research collaborations, media conversations, and opportunities to advance disability policy.