Writing and Media

I write about disability, adulthood, independence, and the policies people encounter while they’re trying to live their lives.

My writing moves between research and personal experience. I’m especially interested in the details that disappear inside technical language.

The Case for Continuity: Geographic Fragmentation in Publicly Funded Disability Support Services

This policy analysis examines how disability support systems tied to location shape work, education, caregiving, geographic mobility, and financial opportunity.

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Inside Disability Systems

This piece brings readers inside the rules, processes, and everyday decisions that have shaped my broader work on disability policy and systems change.

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Why Moving Should Not Put People with Disabilities At Risk

This essay explores the consequences of tying essential disability supports to geography and the need for continuity when people move.

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Dignity is a Policy Outcome, Not a Feeling

This essay considers dignity as something public systems can shape through their design, rules, and everyday decisions.

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Being Seen and Unseen at the Same Time

This personal essay explores visibility, identity, and the experience of being publicly recognizable through one story while carrying a much larger life beyond it.

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More Writing on Medium

My Medium archive includes writing on disability support, access, stability, interdependence, mobility, dignity, and the ways policy reaches into ordinary life.

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Media and Conversations

Forbes

Why Portable Disability Support Is The Next Big Workforce Innovation

Keely Cat-Wells featured my work on disability support service portability, geographic mobility, and the relationship between support systems and workforce participation.

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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, education, employment, and the future of disability advocacy.

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Video

Watch Me in Conversation

This video is part of my growing collection of interviews, presentations, and public conversations about disability, systems, advocacy, and everyday life.

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Early Writing

These pieces include my The Quiet Part column for the Daily Trojan and earlier personal writing. I keep them here because they are part of the path that led to my current research, advocacy, and book.

When Disability Is Treated as Optional, People Get Hurt

Daily Trojan, The Quiet Part column · December 2025

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Inspiration Is Not Inclusion

Daily Trojan, The Quiet Part column · November 2025

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Disability Belongs in Our Equity Conversations

Daily Trojan, The Quiet Part column · October 2025

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When “Support” Becomes Surveillance

Daily Trojan, The Quiet Part column · October 2025

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Showing Up Looks Different for Every Student

Daily Trojan, The Quiet Part column · September 2025

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Access Isn’t the Same as Belonging

Daily Trojan, The Quiet Part column · August 2025

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The Realities of a Doubly-Disabled Relationship

Daily Trojan · June 2025

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For Media

I can speak about disability support service portability, geographic lock-in, disability systems, mobility, continuity, public stories, and the ideas explored in The Quiet Parts of Disability.