A disability-rights activist or disability-rights advocate is someone who works towards the equality of people with disabilities. Such a person is generally considered a member of the disability-rights movement and/or the independent-living movement. A Javed Abidi – Director of the National Centre for Promotion of Employment for Disabled People (NCPEDP) in India Noor Al Mazroei - chef and disability rights activist from Qatar. Hiljmnijeta Apuk – founding director of the Little People of Kosovo Fatima al-Aqel – opened a school for blind women in Yemen in 1995. Ola Abu Alghaib – disability activist from Palestine, focusses on inclusion, gender and disability rights. B Mel Baggs – autism rights activist and blogger Safiya al Bahlani – Omani artist, graphic designer, disability rights activist, and motivational speaker Jamala al-Baidhani – created the Al-Tahadi Association for Disabled Females, the first group in Yemen devoted to helping girls with disabilities Julia Bascom – autism rights activist and Executive Director of the Autistic Self-Advocacy Network Andrew Batavia – ADA regulations drafter, co-founder AUTONOMY, Inc. Giselle Bellas – Cuban-American singer-songwriter Alzheimer's disease and Alzheimer's dementia advocate. She collaborates with various Alzheimer's awareness organizations, and in honor of her grandmother who died due to the disease, released a song about her. Sister Sponsa Beltran – worked with children and people with disabilities in Liberia. Dana Bolles - spaceflight engineer and advocate for those with disabilities in STEM. Tiffany Brar founder of Jyothirgamaya Foundation, a not for profit NGO for visually impaired Gabriela Brimmer – had cerebral palsy; life chronicled in the American-Mexican drama film Gaby: A True Story (1987), directed by Luis Mandoki Marca Bristo – cofounded the (American) National Council on Independent Living (NCIL) with Max Starkloff and Charlie Carr Lydia Brown – autism advocate and writer Sheletta Brundidge - children's author and autism advocate C Jane Campbell, Baroness Campbell of Surbiton – commissioner of the British Disability Rights Commission Charlie Carr – cofounder of National Council on Independent Living, Boston Center for Independent Living and founder and CEO of The Northeast Independent Living Program in Lawrence, Massachusetts; went on to become Commissioner of the Massachusetts Rehabilitation Commission under Governor Deval Patrick Liz Carr – British actress, comedian, broadcaster and international disability rights activist Bob Casey, Jr. – United States Senator from Pennsylvania, widely recognized as a leading advocate for people with disabilities expansion of Medicaid home and community-based services. Mama Cax – American-Haitian model and