Research and Advisory Work

Beyond The Box Advocacy contributes to research initiatives, advisory groups, and policy conversations focused on improving disability systems, healthcare access, and long-term services and supports. This work connects lived experience with systems analysis to help ensure that disability policy reflects the realities of the people who rely on it.

• UCLA Center for Health Policy Research:
  Long-Term Services and Supports Study Research Collaborator

• California Department of Developmental Services:
  Lived Experience Advisory Group Member

• National Association of Social Workers California Chapter:
  DisAbilities Council Policy Subcommittee Chair

• Disability Community Resource Center:
  Board of Directors

• Access Central Coast:
  Board of Directors

• Ventura County Aging and Disability Resource Center:
  Advisory Council Member

• Making Space:
  Community Advisory Board Member

• Billion Strong:
  Global Advisor

Beyond The Box Advocacy integrates insights from these roles into its work advancing disability policy reform, systems design, and structural change.