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State Senator, Oregon (D)
Senator Gelser Blouin has served in the Oregon legislature since 2005 and currently chairs the Senate Committee on Human Services, Mental Health and Recovery. She entered public service through the disability community and is an advocate for full inclusion of people with disabilities in education, the workforce, housing, and community. In 2009, she was appointed by President Barack Obama to the National Council on Disability and in 2011 participated in the German Marshall Memorial Fellowship. Sara successfully spearheaded efforts to strengthen Oregon’s child welfare system, strictly limit the use of seclusion and restraint in schools and kids’ residential programs, and bolster Oregon’s health care nondiscrimination laws to overturn problematic crisis standards of care.
