Disability Rights Washington

Disability Rights Washington Disability Rights Washington is a private non-profit organization that protects the rights of people with disabilities statewide.

✨ Thank you!Thanks to you, DRW’s Washington Gives campaign is a success. Because of your generosity and advocacy, we’re ...
12/03/2025

✨ Thank you!

Thanks to you, DRW’s Washington Gives campaign is a success. Because of your generosity and advocacy, we’re better positioned to protect the legal rights of people with disabilities and advance justice across Washington.
Stay with us—this is just the beginning of the work ahead, and we’re so grateful you’re part of it.

https://givingtuesday.mightycause.com/organization/Disability-Rights-Washington

November is Assistive Technology (AT) Awareness Month!Assistive technology is any tool, device, or system that helps a d...
12/02/2025

November is Assistive Technology (AT) Awareness Month!
Assistive technology is any tool, device, or system that helps a disabled person do something more easily or more independently — at home, at school, at work, or in the community. That can look like:
screen readers and magnification software
communication devices and apps
alternative keyboards and switches
mobility aids, smart-home tools, and more

🚨 The big day is coming soon!On December 2, DRW’s Washington Gives campaign will go live—this is your chance to join in ...
12/01/2025

🚨 The big day is coming soon!

On December 2, DRW’s Washington Gives campaign will go live—this is your chance to join in and help us reach our goal.
Why now? Because when we win rights and representation for people with disabilities, we all benefit.
Set a reminder. Plan to give. Share widely. We’re stronger together.
https://givingtuesday.mightycause.com/organization/Disability-Rights-Washington

🎯 Goal: Raise $5,000 through Washington Gives for DRW. 📌 How to join in:On December 2, visit the Washington Gives page f...
11/28/2025

🎯 Goal: Raise $5,000 through Washington Gives for DRW.

📌 How to join in:

On December 2, visit the Washington Gives page for DRW.
Choose your donation amount.
Share your support with friends/family to amplify the impact.
Your gift supports DRW’s programs in systemic litigation, community inclusion, mobility rights, the DD Ombuds office and more.

https://givingtuesday.mightycause.com/organization/Disability-Rights-Washington

Disability Rights Washington is mourning the passing of Alice Wong, a visionary disabled activist, writer, and creator o...
11/24/2025

Disability Rights Washington is mourning the passing of Alice Wong, a visionary disabled activist, writer, and creator of the Disability Visibility Project. Through her work, including , she changed how the world understands access, disability justice, and community.

Alice’s words continue to guide us: to speak truth to power, to build community, and to refuse to be ground down by ableism. We send love and solidarity to Alice’s family, friends, and the many people whose lives she changed. May her memory be a blessing and a call to action.

Alice contributed to several blog pieces for DRW’s Rooted in Rights Program. You can find those here: https://rootedinrights.org/author/alicewong/

📢 HUGE NEWS! We're thrilled to announce Wallace (Wally) Tablit as the new Executive Director of Disability Rights Washin...
11/13/2025

📢 HUGE NEWS! We're thrilled to announce Wallace (Wally) Tablit as the new Executive Director of Disability Rights Washington (DRW), starting today, November 12, 2025! Wally brings nearly 30 years of experience in disability rights and justice leadership to DRW. He's ready to continue centering the voices of people with disabilities and building critical partnerships.

Read the full announcement and learn more about Wally's expertise here: https://disabilityrightswa.org/drw-welcomes-our-new-executive-director/

In October 2025 Disability Rights Washington became an organizational member of the Washington State Immigrant Solidarit...
11/05/2025

In October 2025 Disability Rights Washington became an organizational member of the Washington State Immigrant Solidarity Network. In doing so we affirm our commitment to the disabled community and organizations supporting those currently being profiled due to their race, ethnicity, and/or national origin and aim to support local efforts to defend immigrant and migrant communities. We look forward to deepening our understanding of what is happening in Washington state, strengthening relationships with those working on the front lines to protect due process and prevent violence against our community, and sharing the perspectives of people with disabilities to help inform this important work.

In October 2025 Disability Rights Washington became an organizational member of the Washington State Immigrant Solidarity Network. In doing so we affirm our commitment to the disabled community and organizations supporting those currently being profiled due to their race, ethnicity, and/or national....

DRW is hiring for two staff attorney positions. One is a Prisoners' Rights Impact Litigation Attorney, and the other is ...
10/20/2025

DRW is hiring for two staff attorney positions. One is a Prisoners' Rights Impact Litigation Attorney, and the other is a Deinstitutionalization Impact Litigation Attorney. View these and all of our job listings here: https://disabilityrightswa.org/employment/

Week Without Driving 2025, Bigger Than EverMore than 500 individuals and 50 elected officials from across Washington Sta...
10/07/2025

Week Without Driving 2025, Bigger Than Ever

More than 500 individuals and 50 elected officials from across Washington State participated in this year’s Week Without Driving challenge which was celebrated by community organizations, transit agencies, transportation departments and public officials across our state.
In 2021, disabled advocates at Disability Rights Washington launched the Week Without Driving to increase the visibility of nondrivers. Now in its fifth year, Week Without Driving has grown to include more than five hundred co-hosting organizations across all fifty US states, Canada and Australia.

This year, in Washington State, we received official Week Without Driving proclamations from Governor Ferguson, and the cities of Carnation, College Place, Dayton, Kirkland, Snoqualmie, North Bend, Olympia, Tumwater, Snoqualmie, Seattle and Walla Walla, as well as Columbia, Pierce, King and Kitsap Counties.

https://disabilityrightswa.org/week-without-driving-2025-bigger-than-ever/

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Seattle, WA
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We advance the dignity, equality, and self-determination of people with disabilities

A charge to protect and advocate civil and human rights of people with disabilities: this was the genesis of the protection and advocacy system, enacted by Congress in 1975. This charge has become embedded in all of Disability Rights Washington’s work, be it grassroots leadership development, litigation, public policy, systemic reform, coalition-building, self-advocacy development or community education.

Our name and infrastructure have changed with time. Our advocacy and business strategies have developed. The economy has flourished or languished and politics have swept like a pendulum through the years. But we are steadfast in our disability civil rights movement. While what it takes to promote the civil and human rights of people with disabilities may have changed over the last few decades; what it means to promote these rights has not. We are rooted in rights. Learn more about us and our history on our website.

Image description: Signing House Bill 90, 1970. Janet Taggart, Katie Dolan, Cecile Lindquist, Governor Daniel Evans, Evelyn Chapman, George Breck, and William Dussault 1990 (inset).