Carlos Drazen

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Carlos Drazen

Carlos Drazen is an African American disability rights activist. She is on the board of Access Living and has worked with INCITE and other organizations. Previously a staffperson at DePaul University, she is currently a PhD student at University of Illinois at Chicago interested in the intersection of race and disability. She is an outspoken advocate for children with disabilities in Chicago Public Schools.

Many localized and issue-specific struggles around the country and the world are the movement building blocks -- patches of our movement quilt. And in the woman-centered quilting tradition, we need to take time to stitch those patches together to make something whole and functional.