I don’t just advocate for disabled West Virginians — I am one.
As a blind, disabled advocate with lived experience navigating SSDI, SNAP, accessibility failures, medical trauma, transportation gaps, and discrimination, my work is grounded in reality, not theory.
Disabled people deserve:
financial stability access to assistive technology affordable mobility devices accessible workplaces safe housing real healthcare freedom from poverty and the right to be included everywhere decisions are made
My advocacy blends personal experience with policy knowledge, program design, and lived-experience insight.
What I Work Toward
Improving access to assistive technology (braille displays, canes, devices)
Reforming systems that trap disabled people in poverty
Expanding accessible transportation Creating jobs within disability limits Ensuring programs are ADA-compliant and neurodivergent-inclusive
Designing services that allow disabled people to thrive, not just survive
Disabled people are the backbone of West Virginia.
It’s time we’re treated like it.
Axyl for WV 