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Ford Foundation Names Judy Heumann Senior Fellow
September 14, 2017
NEW YORK, Sept. 14 -- The Ford Foundation issued the following news release:

The Ford Foundation today announced the appointment of disability and civil rights advocate Judith E. Heumann as a senior fellow.

An internationally recognized social justice leader, Heumann has been a longtime human rights advocate--especially for people with disabilities. Since the early 1970s, when she sued the New York City Board of Education and became the school system's first teache . . .

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