LILLY GROSSMAN

Lilly Grossman is a professional disability advocate, social work graduate student at the University of Southern California, and founder of Beyond The Box Advocacy. Her work focuses on disability rights, health equity, and support service reform. She brings lived experience to every part of her leadership, which allows her to identify gaps that others often miss.

Lilly partners with individuals, families, non-profits, healthcare systems, and policymakers to address barriers that keep people with disabilities from accessing stable support. She has contributed to statewide conversations on equity through her service on numerous advisory boards.

Her signature project is a national disability support portability framework. This project works to shift support services away from residency tied eligibility and toward person anchored care. Lilly blends policy analysis with deep community insight to build solutions that center people with disabilities at every stage.

Beyond The Box Advocacy provides advocacy support, consulting and training, and strategic communications. Lilly plans to include therapy services once she becomes a Licensed Clinical Social Worker.

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She has been featured in multiple publications and continues to grow her work across the disability space. Her writing focuses on the intersection of disability, mental health, and structural change. Lilly's long-term goals include becoming an LCSW, launching a private practice, and pursuing a doctorate to deepen her policy research.