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Harilyn Rousso was born in 1946 with cerebral palsy.
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In 2003 she was designated a Women"s History Month Honoree by the National Women"s History Project. She would move on to another training facility and eventually obtained her license. Rousso would also graduate from Brandeis University with a degree in economics.
Rousso"s main work focuses on three themes: psychotherapy, disabled women and fine art
After graduation from college she worked at the Office of Economic Opportunity in Washington, District of Columbia which helped trigger her interest in working with people. In the 1980s Rousso began the Networking Project for Disabled Women and Girls at the New York City Young Women’s Christian Association. Later that decade she would publish Disabled, Female, and Proud: Stories of Ten Women with Disabilities and make the film Positive Images: Portraits of Women with Disabilities.
As a disabled rights activist worked for the United Nations Fourth International Conference on Women and used that experience to foster Beijing +5, a series of trainings for disabled women. She has also served on the board of Mississippi magazine, the Center for Women Policy Studies, the Sister Fund, among others
In 2000 she was the recipient of the Jessie Bernard Wise Women Award.
Since 1997 she has also produced fine art as a way to enhance visibility and awareness about disability.
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