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Marca Bristo has been involved with the Disability Rights and Independent Living Movements since the late 1970s. She helped found Access Living, the first independent living center in Chicago, Illinois, in 1979. She co-founded the National Council on Independent Living in 1982, and she served as chair of the National Council on Disability from 1994 to 2002. On both local and national levels, she has been a strong advocate for consumer control of independent living programs, for cross-disability networks, and for disability rights legislation.