Judy Heumann

Signature Moves

• Witness Record - makes suppressed evidence around disability rights impossible to ignore.
• Coalition Bridge - connects accessible policy to wider movement pressure.
• Rights Horizon - converts a local demand into a durable public standard.

Timeline

• 1947: Born.
• Founded Disabled in Action, helped lead the Section 504 sit-in, co-founded the World Institute on Disability, and shaped national and international disability policy.
• Long aftershock: Making disabled people the authors of policy rather than objects of care remains active in the Rights Era.

Major Actions

• Founded Disabled in Action, helped lead the Section 504 sit-in, co-founded the World Institute on Disability, and shaped national and international disability policy.
• Expanded the public record around disability rights and accessible policy.

Controversies

• Her work emphasized collective leadership; accessibility gains remain uneven across race, class, geography, and type of disability.
• Eracii separates documented impact from sainthood: movements are collective, internally debated, and larger than any one card.

Card Notes

• Ratings are bounded Eracii mechanics, not objective measures of courage, suffering, or moral worth.
• Core arena read: disability rights and accessible policy.
• The Rights Era treats liberation as collective work; each portrait represents a wider movement, not a lone-hero substitute for it.