Laverne Jacobs, a middle aged black woman smiles while sitting in a power wheelchair on a walkway outdoors. She has short dark hair and glasses and is wearing a dark colored dress

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   Jessamyn (jessamyn@glammr.us)'s status on Sunday, 16-Mar-2025 08:13:39 JST Jessamyn

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   Occasionally someone just pings me on social media and says "Hey this person really should have a Wikipedia page, don't you think?" and I can assemble one. Laverne Jacobs is a law professor and disability rights expert who is the first Canadian member of the UN Committee on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities. She wrote the first Canadian disability law textbook. I'll be honest, this article mostly wrote itself.

   https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Laverne_Jacobs