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Marca Bristo
American disability rights activist (1953–2019)
Marca Bristo (June 23, 1953 – September 8, 2019) was an American disability rights activist.
Life and career
Bristo was born Marcia Lynn Bristo on June 23, 1953,[1] in Albany, New York, and was raised on a family farm in Castleton-on-Hudson, New York before moving to West Winfield, New York.[2] She attended Beloit College and earned her nursing degree from Rush University in Chicago.[2] Early in her career, she worked at the Prentice Women's Hospital.[2]
Bristo was paralyzed from the chest down in a diving accident in 1977, when she was 23 years old.[3] In 1983, she co-founded the American National Council on Independent Living (NCIL) with Max Starkloff and Charlie Carr.[4] She helped to write the Americans with Disabilities Act of 1990, was granted the Secretary's Distinguished Service Award, the Americans with Disabilities Act Award and the 2014 Henr