HEARD

HEARD is a small non-profit organization based in Washington, DC. With four employees, the organization generates an annual revenue of $2.5 million. HEARD is a cross-disability abolitionist organization dedicated to dismantling various forms of oppression. The organization supports disabled people and those who experience ableism by challenging traditional notions of disability and advocating for the inclusion of deaf individuals within the disability community. HEARD provides various services to achieve its goals, including grassroots advocacy, community organizing, peer support, mutual aid, education, and research. HEARD's work focuses on empowering multiply-marginalized disabled individuals, promoting self-determination, and envisioning a future without policing or incarceration. The organization emphasizes values such as anti-violence, anti-oppression, disability justice, interdependence, transformative justice, collective liberation, abolition, healing, and love. For more information about HEARD and its initiatives, please visit their website at behearddc.org.