WITH LIVED EXPERIENCE

With Lived Experience, founded in 2021, is aimed at helping individuals and community groups change systems. We believe in the Disability Rights Movement rallying cry, "Nothing About Us Without Us." Program, policy and legal decisions should should be made with and by people who've been impacted by those policies. Essentially, systems that center authority around those with firsthand accounts will not only be more empathetic, but ultimately will make better decisions in the long run... We host community forums and trainings that bring people with common lived experience together. We provide support on policy advocacy and grassroots organizing. We also provide coaching on navigating bureaucracies, and career development for those with lived experiences interested in making changes in their communities.