Able South Carolina
Mary Reaves has a wealth of experience in the field of community access, programs, and mental health services. With a background in psychology and a master's degree in rehabilitation counseling with a focus on deaf studies and psychiatric disabilities, Mary has served in various roles such as Director of Community Access at Able South Carolina, Co-Founder and Director of Programs at Beginnings SC, and Regional Coordinator for Deaf and Hard of Hearing Services at the SC Dept of Mental Health. Additionally, Mary has contributed to Girls Rock Columbia as a Board Member and served as an Adjunct Professor at the University of South Carolina School of Medicine.
Able South Carolina
Able SC is a disability-led organization seeking transformational changes in systems, communities, and individuals. Since 1994, we’ve remained a consumer-controlled, community-based, cross-disability nonprofit that seeks to make South Carolina a national model of equity and inclusion for all people with disabilities. We are the state’s oldest and largest federally recognized disability-led organization. More than 3/4 of our staff are people with disabilities, as are over half of our Board of Directors. We practice coequality, disability justice and representation, and true inclusion through consumer-driven independence and disability pride. We didn’t just learn this. As people with disabilities, our work doesn’t end when we leave the office. Disability is part of who we are. We live this every day.