in New York. Edward Evans – Chairman of the UK Ministry of Health Health Advisory Committee on Handicapped Persons from 1949 to 1960 F Fred Fay – American advocate for disabled persons. Chai Feldblum – lead attorney on legal team that drafted the Americans with Disabilities Act of 1990. Julie Fernandez – actress with osteogenesis imperfecta; founded The Disability Foundation; active on presentation of disabled people. Catherine Frazee – co-director of Ryerson University's Institute for Disability Studies Research and Education Lex Frieden – Chairman of the National Council on Disability from 2002 to 2006; key developer of the Americans with Disabilities Act. Judy Fryd – founded group in 1946 for parents of children with a learning disability; the group later became Mencap Vic Finkelstein – South African born activist and academic, pioneer of the social model of disability G Haben Girma – first deafblind graduate of Harvard Law School Marilyn Golden – disability transportation activist Miro Griffiths – disabled academic and activist Chen Guangcheng – Chinese civil rights activist H Laura Hershey – protested MDA Labor Day Telethon; a feminist born with a form of muscular dystrophy Judith Heumann – wheelchair user who co-founded the World Institute on Disability; served as its co-director from 1983 to 1993; became the Special Advisor for International Disability Rights at the U.S. Department of State Rick Hansen – former Canadian Paralympian; raised $20 million for spinal cord research, rehabilitation and wheelchair sports by travelling by wheelchair through 34 countries I Tonya Ingram, – brought awareness through her writing to subjects such as chronic illness, organ donation, Lupus, kidney failure, the COVID-19 pandemic's impact on disabled people, mental illness, suicide, depression, and disability rights. Davina Ingrams, 18th Baroness Darcy de Knayth – British Paralympian and Representative peer Malvika Iyer – bilateral amputee, a disability rights activist, and a member of United Nations IANYD's Working Group J Casar Jacobson – autism, disability, and gender equality rights activist, and a UN Women Youth Champion; Former Miss Canada (2013). Bilaterally Deaf and uses American Sign Language Harriet McBryde Johnson – a New Mobility "Person of the Year"; a disability-rights attorney and anti-euthanasia activist I. King Jordan – first deaf president of Gallaudet University K Helen Keller – American deaf-blind political activist, writer, and lecturer John D. Kemp – American disability-rights activist; President and CEO of Viscardi center and the Henry Viscardi School Cara Elizabeth Yar Khan – Disability