White House Adds New Disability Adviser
By Michelle Diament
July 15, 2014
A fresh face is on board at the White House tasked with focusing on disability issues.
Starting this week, Taryn Mackenzie Williams will serve as a liaison between the disability community and the president as an associate director in the White House’s Office of Public Engagement.
She fills a role that has been vacant since Claudia Gordon left in the spring to return to the U.S. Department of Labor’s Office of Federal Contract Compliance Programs after less than a year in the post.
In much the same fashion, Williams’ appointment is expected to be short-term. Williams will essentially be “on loan” from the U.S. Department of Labor’s Office of Disability Employment Policy where she works as a senior policy adviser, according to Lawrence Carter-Long at the National Council on Disability, a federal agency that advises the president on disability policy.
in full: http://www.disabilityscoop.com/2014/07/15/white-house-disability-adviser/19515/
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more than deserving population of special needs/disabled will be better served now.
Fingers crossed here.
I will post updates if/when I find out more.
