Administrator, Center for Independent Living, Berkeley, 1973-1976; assistant director, California Department of Rehabilitation, 1976-1982; cofounder and chief administrator, World Institute on Disability, 1983-1997.

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  Pioneering Disability Rights Advocate and Leader in Disabled in Action, New York; Center for Independent Living, Berkeley; World Institute on Disability; and the US Department of Education, 1960s-2000
• Read oral history:
  Joan Leon
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  On the leadership of WID and the role of nondisabled people in the disability movement
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  On the three agendas that influenced the formation of the World Institute on Disability
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  On the three agendas that influenced the formation of the World Institute on Disability