Gwen Gillenwater serves as Director of the disAbility Resource Center in Charleston, S.C. , and has been engaged in disability rights for over 20 years.
Her efforts in advocacy for systems change and in policy-making have been at the local, state and national levels. She was director of a center for independent living in rural Virginia, executive director of a statewide disability coalition in Illinois, director of public policy and advocacy for the National Council on Independent Living, and senior director for public policy, advocacy and outreach for the American Association for People with Disabilities in Washington, D.C.
She served on the board of directors for APRIL (Association of Programs in Rural Independent Living) for five years and is currently an advisor to the Rehabilitation Research and Training Center on Measurement and Interdependence in Community Living (RRTC/MICL).
In August 2005, she was appointed as a voting commissioner to the US Medicaid Commission by Michael O. Leavitt, Secretary of Health and Human Services. Her minority report representing concerns of the disability community was noted in a report to Congress in December, 2006. In September 2007, Ms. Gillenwater became Director of the disAbility Resource Center in Charleston, S.C.
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