Then and Now: Access Living’s Legacy of Impact
Annual Report for Fiscal Year 2019
1980 2019
We Are Access Living…
A center of service, advocacy, and social change for people with disabilities led and run by a majority of people with disabilities in Chicago.
We ignite disability power and pride, provide critical services so that disabled people can live independently, and break down systemic barriers to create a stronger, more inclusive society.
We envision a world free from barriers and discrimination – where disability is a respected and natural part of the human experience and people with disabilities are included and valued.
You can view our 2019 annual report through the navigation along the left-hand side of this page, or you can download it from under ‘Resources.’
1990 – Assistant Secretary of Housing Gordon Mansfield (left) discusses the Fair Housing Amendment with Access Living staffers. 2018 – Disability advocate and Young Professionals Council President Justin Cooper. 2005 – Yoshiko Dart presents Marca Bristo with the 2005 Lead On Award. 1988 – Access Living activists at a rally to prohibit housing discrimination based on disability. 1988 – Chicago’s disabled community exerts public pressure for equal access to public transit. 1989 – Marca Bristo and Justin Dart lead a vigil in support of the ADA in front of the White House.
Our Board of Directors
Officers
- Andrés J. Gallegos, Esq.
- Board Chair
- Robbins, Salomon, and Patt, Ltd.
- Board Chair
- John Schmidt
- Vice-Chair
- Mayer Brown LLP
- Vice-Chair
- Kent Klaus
- Treasurer
- DePaul University
- Treasurer
- Felicia Rauls
- Secretary
- Mesirow Financial
- Secretary
- Doug Dobmeyer
- Program Committee Chair
- Kristin Weaver
- Resource Development Committee Chair
- The Northern Trust
- Resource Development Committee Chair
- Ben Lumicao
- Nominating & Board Development Chair
- Allstate
- Nominating & Board Development Chair
- Members
- Jennifer Brown
- Kurt Schulenburg
- EY
- Tara John
- BMO
- Maury Fantus*
- Cliff Weber*
- Will Haffner
- Kevin Fritz
- Seyfarth Shaw LLP
- Elliot Roth, MD
- Shirley Ryan AbilityLab
- Joan Wolfensberger, PhD
- Ken Bennett
- Tuyet Le
- Neil Hartigan
- ShaRhonda Dawson
- Shari Runner
- The Humanity Institute
- Wilson Mantilla
- Peoples Gas
- Zak Kordik, MD
- Modern Mental Health and Foundations Recovery Network
- Mark Owen
- RxAdvance
*Deceased