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Mary Lou Breslin
Mary Lou Breslin is the co-founder of the Berkeley's Disability Rights Education and Defense Fund (DREDF) and advocate on behalf of people with disabilities in the U.S. and around the world.
Born in xxx in xxx. At age twelve she contracted polio and spent months at the rehabilitation center in Warm Springs, Georgia. After returning to high school in Louisville, she spent four years at the University of Illinois at Champaign-Urbana and became interested in political movements while attending college. Arrival in California in 1973. Major disability legislation, e.g., Rehabilitation Act of 1973, Individuals with Disabilities Education Act of 1975, Americans with Disabilities Act of 1990, and several Supreme Court cases inform her discussion, providing understanding of her motives and activities. This includes her role in the 504 sit-in in 1977, her subsequent leadership of the training program for Section 504, and the struggle against deregulation in 1981; the development of DREDF'S three-pronged strategy of grassroots organizing, policy reform, and litigation; the establishment of alliances with civil rights leaders and key government officials.
Her efforts to promote disability civil rights began in the 1970's when she organized and trained thousands of people with disabilities about the new federal disability rights law, Section 504 of the 1973 Rehabilitation Act. In 1979 she co-founded DREDF, the nation's first cross-disability civil rights law and policy center. Received the Henry B. Betts Award in 2002. [press release at http://www.dredf.org/press/betts.html ]
Oral history: http://ark.cdlib.org/view?docId=kt8r29n9sp&query=&brand=calisphere -- link to University of
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Breslin was included in the KGO series, Profiles of excellence
Clifford Lynch is the director of the Coalition for Networked Information (CNI), where he has been since 1997[ref]. He is also an adjunct professor at Berkeley’s School of Information[ref]. Prior to joining CNI, Lynch spent 18 years at the University of California Office of the President, the last 10 as Director of Library Automation. He is both a past president and recipient of the Award of Merit of the American Society for Information[ref], and a fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science and the National Information Standards Organization.
In 2011 he was appointed co-chair of the National Academies Board on Research Data and Information (BRDI)[ref]; His work has been recognized by the American Library Association’s Lippincott Award, the EDUCAUSE Leadership Award in Public Policy and Practice, and the American Society for Engineering Education’s Homer Bernhardt Award[ref].
Lynch holds a Ph.D. in Computer Science from the University of California, Berkeley.
http://old.cni.org/press/9705_prelease.html
http://www.ischool.berkeley.edu/people/faculty/cliffordlynch
http://www.asee.org/member-resources/awards/full-list-of-awards/awards-archive/past-division-award-winners-2
http://sites.nationalacademies.org/pga/brdi/pga_047289
http://www.asis.org/awards/award_of_merit.html
