Able South Carolina
Melissa Snyder has been working at Able South Carolina since July 2012, where Melissa serves as a WIPA Community Work Incentives Coordinator. Prior to this, Melissa worked at Lexington Medical Center as a Console Operator. Melissa earned a WIPA Community Work Incentives Coordinator Certificate from Virginia Commonwealth University in 2016 and has a background in Criminology from Midlands Technical College. Melissa also holds a General Education/Vocal Performance diploma from SC Governors School for the Arts and Humanities.
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.