Disability Matters with Joyce Bender focuses on the employment and empowerment of people with disabilities. Episodes feature prominent disability leaders such as Congressman Tony Coelho, Governor Dick Thornburgh, Andy Imparato, and senior executives from the private sector.
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Upcoming Disability Matters Podcast Episode
Ari Ne’eman: American Disability Rights Activist /Professor at Department of Health Policy and Management, Harvard University Discusses Vast Career
April 21, 2026
Joyce welcomes Ari Ne’eman an American disability rights activist. Ari is currently serving as an assistant professor of health policy and management at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health. He is well-known researcher who co-founded the Autistic Self Advocacy Network in 2006.
On December 16, 2009, President Barack Obama announced that Ari would be appointed to the National Council on Disability. He chaired the Council’s Policy & Program Evaluation Committee. He was the first autistic person to serve on the Council. In 2015, Ari left the National Council on Disability at the end of second term. He will share all this and more during the show.