Ari Ne’eman is a 4th year student in Harvard's PhD in Health Policy. He received his BA in Political Science from the University of Maryland, Baltimore County in 2010, and has since worked in disability policy advocacy. From 2006 to 2016, he served as executive director of the Autistic Self Advocacy Network, a national advocacy organization run by and for Autistic Americans. From 2010 to 2015, he served as one of President Obama’s appointees to the National Council on Disability. Most recently, he worked as a consultant to the American Civil Liberties Union, the Department of Health and Human Services Office of Civil Rights, the Service Employees International Union and other organizations interested in health and disability policy. He is currently a Visiting Scholar at the Lurie Institute for Disability Policy at Brandeis and his research interests include disability employment, long term services and supports and bioethics.