Marca Bristo Biography
- Title:
- President and CEO of Access Living
- Position:
- None Found to the question "Should Euthanasia or Physician-Assisted Suicide Be Legal?"
- Reasoning:
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No position found as of June 6, 2007
- Involvement and Affiliations:
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- President and CEO, Access Living
- Presidentially-appointed Chairperson of the National Council on Disability, 1994-2002
- Former President and Co-founder, National Council on Independent Living
- Co-founder, National Council on Independent Living
- Registered nurse
- Co-founded and became Executive Director of Access Living, 1980
- Works on United Nations committee working with people with disabilities throughout the world to create a convention on disability rights
- Member, Board of Trustees, Rehabilitation Institute of Chicago
- Served on the congressionally appointed Task Force on the Rights and Empowerment of Americans with Disabilities that crafted the Americans with Disabilities Act
- First disabled person to head the National Council on Disability
- Recipient, Leadership Greater Chicago Distinguished Fellow Award
- Recipient, Henry B. Betts Award (considered the Nobel Prize in the rehabilitation/disability field)
- Recipient, Americans with Disabilities Act Award
- Recipient, United Way of Chicago Executive of the Year Award
- Education:
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- BS, Nursing, Rush College of Nursing
- BA, Sociology, Beloit College
- Other:
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- None found
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