About the DCC Team

Our team is a partnership between L.C. and Lillie Cox Haven of Hope and the Longmore Institute on Disability at San Francisco State University. We are a majority disabled, BIPOC, women and gender-queer team. Each person has a deep, lived experience of disability. Together, we represent a spectrum of experiences ranging from living with chronic illness and pain to mental and physical disability. In addition to our personal lived experience, our team members have deep community and familial roots in Disability culture.

Haven of Hope, the DCC’s lead organization, has spent more than a decade fighting for a world in which all individuals enjoy equitable opportunity and the support to cope, heal, and flourish to their fullest potential, where differences are celebrated and humanity is the uniting theme. This work has supported and been led by disabled people, while also tapping into some of the communities where “disability” has not been adopted as an identity.

The Longmore Institute on Disability is an internationally known leader in cultivating disability culture and community. At the Longmore Institute, our mission is to study and showcase disabled people's experiences in order to revolutionize social views. Through public education, scholarship, and cultural events, the Institute shares disability history and theory, promotes critical thinking, and builds a broader community.