Featured in Forbes
Why Portable Disability Support Is The Next Big Workforce Innovation
Keely Cat-Wells featured my work on disability support service portability and the relationship between support systems, mobility, and workforce participation.
Founder and CEO • Disability Policy Researcher • Systems Strategist
Lilly Grossman
Rewrite Stories, Change Systems, Be What’s Possible
Hi! I’m Lilly. I’m a writer, researcher, advocate, and Founder and CEO of Beyond The Box Advocacy. I’m ambitious, deeply curious, and usually working on several ideas at once. I care a lot about doing meaningful work, building strong relationships, continuing to learn, and creating a life that feels fully my own.
My disability is part of that life and has shaped many of the questions behind my work. Questions about who gets to imagine an expansive future, what makes that future possible, and how stories and systems shape what we believe we can pursue keep pulling me forward. Those questions have grown into my research, advocacy, writing, and my forthcoming book, The Quiet Parts of Disability.
There is still so much I want to explore, create, and understand. Hopefully, something here makes you think, offers a useful perspective, or stays with you after you leave.
I’m glad you’re here!
What I’m Working On
Disability Policy Research
My research looks at how disability support systems affect where people can live, work, go to school, travel, and build the lives they want.
Beyond The Box Advocacy
Through Beyond The Box Advocacy, I help people navigate disability systems while looking closely at what individual cases reveal about larger problems that need to change.
Writing and Speaking
My writing and speaking focus on the parts of disability people do not always talk about, especially the details that shape ordinary life.
Making Disability Policy Human
Talks that bring together leadership, representation, public policy, and the realities people encounter every day.
The Strength in Staying Soft: Leading with Empathy in Hard Spaces
Empathy, trust, and staying soft in hard spaces.
Visible Enough to Inspire, Invisible When It Matters: Rethinking Disability Representation and Policy
Representation, policy, and what visibility leaves unseen.
Beyond Survival: Calling Out the Enforced Barriers
Structural barriers, benefits systems, and everyday opportunity.
Redefining Independence: Beyond the Myth of Doing It All Alone
Interdependence, support, choice, and independence.
Writing, Research, and Conversations
My writing follows the places where public policy becomes personal: paperwork, eligibility rules, recurring barriers, cultural narratives, and the supports behind ordinary decisions. Individual experiences often reveal broader patterns in how institutions operate.
USC Equity Research Institute
The Case for Continuity
My policy analysis examines how disability support systems tied to location shape work, education, caregiving, mobility, and financial opportunity.
Pushing Forward with Alycia
A New Era of Inclusion: Lilly Grossman’s Mission
I joined Alycia Anderson for a conversation about Beyond The Box Advocacy, disability systems, storytelling, interdependence, and the future of disability advocacy.
Writing archive
Essays, Policy Writing, and Earlier Work
My writing archive includes current policy analysis, personal essays, my The Quiet Part column, and an Early Writing section that preserves the work that helped shape my current voice.
My Community
You can find more of my work on LinkedIn, Instagram, and in my newsletter, Where Policy Lands. Some of my favorite conversations start when people ask questions, share their experiences, or tell me what resonated.
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Professional audience following my disability policy, research, systems, and writing work.
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Public-facing updates spanning disability policy, writing, representation, leadership, and everyday life.
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Readers receiving my writing, research, book updates, and public-facing systems work.
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