DEPARTMENT OF DISABILITIES

SECRETARY

Office of Secretary
Department of Disabilities
217 East Redwood St., Suite 1300, Baltimore, MD 21202
(410) 767-3661; fax: (410) 333-6674; tdd: (410) 333-3098
e-mail: mdod@mdod.state.md.us
web: www.mdod.maryland.gov
www.mdtap.org (Technology Assistance Program)

Member, Governor's Executive Council, 2015-; Children's Cabinet, 2015-; Governor's Warrior to Worker Council, 2015-. Chair, Interagency Disabilities Board, 2015-; Advisory Committee, Technology Assistance Program, 2015-. Co-Chair, Interagency Transition Council for Youth with Disabilities, 2015-. Member, Task Force on the Maryland Achieving a Better Life Experience (ABLE) Program, 2015-; Interagency Committee on Aging Services, 2015-; Virginia I. Jones Alzheimer's Disease and Related Disorders Council, 2015-; Maryland Building Rehabilitation Code Advisory Council, 2015-; Advisory Council to the Children's Cabinet, 2015-; Maryland Developmental Disabilities Council, 2015-; Governor's Commission for Effective Community Inclusion of Individuals with Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities, 2015-; State Coordinating Committee for Human Services Transportation, 2015-; Interdepartmental Advisory Committee for Minority Affairs, 2015-; State Advisory Council on Quality Care at the End of Life, 2015-. Governing Board, Maryland Center for School Safety, 2015-. Member, Task Force to Study the Impact of Expanding Credit and Noncredit Courses for Students with Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities, 2015-; Maryland Commission on Suicide Prevention, 2015-.

Member, Commission on Disability Issues, Howard County, 2006-; Local Management Board (Local Children's Board), Howard County, 2006-; Interagency Transition Council, Howard County, 2013-.

Born in Upper Darby, Pennsylvania, December 18, 1953. Towson University, B.A. (mass communications & history), 1975; The Johns Hopkins University, M.S. (special education), 1981. Associate Executive Director, Bello Machre, Inc., 1979-1985. Executive Director, Alternative Living, Inc., 1985-93. Executive Director, The Arc of Howard County, 1993-2015. Human Rights Award, Human Rights Commission, Howard County, 2011. Inductee, Howard County Women's Hall of Fame, 2012. Maryland's Top 100 Women, Daily Record, 2013.

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