Casey Doherty

@caseydoherty

she/her Disability policy analyst @americanprogress.bsky.social by day, disability studies PhD student by night. ME/Long Covid/Lyme/MCAS/etc. Cat mom! Need masks in the DMV area? Msg me! Opinions my own. Reposts/likes not endorsements.

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Casey Doherty@caseydoherty· 5d

Thank you to everyone who joined us for the DC premiere of Take Me Home! I encourage you to check out the film, which balances independence, interdependence, family, caregiving, and community.

A group of smiling people on a CAP-branded stage.

Casey is speaking into a handheld microphone to panelist Liz on a CAP-branded stage.

A wide shot of the Take Me Home panel in an event space, with the audience in the left side of the image and the panelists on stage in the right side of the image.

Casey Doherty@caseydoherty· 8d

I’m three days late on this but the message is still relevant! Disability Pride Month? Disability Pride YEAR! It’s honoring and celebrating our ancestors and preparing for the future and the fight ahead. @aapd.com @disabilitypolicy.bsky.social

Casey Doherty@caseydoherty· 10d

We had the best time at Cabaret last night! Thanks @disabilitylab.bsky.social, @crushcolonialism.bsky.social, and Transform Gender Collective for creating a space full of joy.

Charles, a multiracial man holding a blue drink, in front of the Cabaret sign.

The Cabaret performers being applauded on stage.

Sophia, Kenrya, and Casey at an outdoor event with tables and attendees behind them.

Casey Doherty@caseydoherty· 11d

It’s the last day of Disability Pride Month, but the pride and work endure! Some reflections I recorded for @aapd.com :

Casey Doherty@caseydoherty· 15d

Rebecca Cokley and I recorded a great conversation here - more soon! 👀 So grateful for Rebecca's friendship and mentorship. Thank you, Partners for Youth with Disabilities!

Two orange chairs facing each other in an auditorium, with microphones and video equipment.

Casey Doherty@caseydoherty· 19d

Thank you again to Partners for Youth with Disabilities for the honor of being inducted into the Susan M. Daniels Disability Mentoring Hall of Fame this week! Learn more about the inductees: pyd.org/hall-of-fame... I’m so grateful to be in community with these incredible mentors!

A blue gradient slide with the title “Congratulations to the Class of 2026” and 16 small rectangles with photos of each of the Susan M. Daniels Disability Mentoring Hall of Fame inductees.

Casey, a white woman with dark blonde hair, is wearing a white N95 Aura mask and speaking into a microphone. She is seated in a blue chair. Text - "PYD Susan M. Daniels Disability Mentoring Hall of Fame. What does mentoring mean to you? 'Mentorship means everything to me. The disability community has such a powerful culture of mentorship, and the relationships I have built as both a mentor and mentee have sustained me through some of the most challenging periods of my life. Mentorship is how we share knowledge, build confidence, and remind one another that we belong.’” Casey Doherty (she/her) Disability Policy Expert.

Casey Doherty@caseydoherty· 22d

Join us at @americanprogress.bsky.social this evening from 6-8pm for the DC premiere of "Take Me Home." Thanks to @caringacross.org, @aapd.com, and @littlelobbyists.com for cosponsoring! Hope to see you there! rsvp2.americanprogress.org/takemehomere...

A selfie of Casey with the poster for the film "Take Me Home," with logos from CAP, Caring Across Generations, AAPD, and Little Lobbyists.

Casey Doherty@caseydoherty· 28d

This is me because the @disabilitypolicy.bsky.social contributors and editors are hard at work this week ensuring more publications are ready to go! While you’re here, check out our About Us page! So many new team members 😊 www.disabilitypolicyfoundry.org/about-us

Casey Doherty@caseydoherty· Jul 2

Learn more about @disabilitypolicy.bsky.social and submit a policy piece! Produce Policy. Build Power. www.disabilitypolicyfoundry.org

Casey Doherty@caseydoherty· Jul 1

Produce Policy. Build Power. Happy Disability Pride Month! I'm excited to launch @disabilitypolicy.bsky.social in partnership with @incldisability.bsky.social. Disabled people are already policy experts. The Foundry helps develop, publish, & advance disability policy grounded in lived experience.

Light lavender promotional graphic for the Disability Policy Foundry. Black text reads: "The Disability Policy Foundry is a nontraditional space to develop, publish, and advance disability policy grounded in lived experience." Below, a purple rounded box with a disability pride lightbulb icon states: "If you're a disabled person with a policy idea, we want to hear from you! No formal credentials or prior publications required." The lower portion reads: "Visit our website or use the QR code to submit your ideas!" A QR code is on the right, and the website DisabilityPolicyFoundry.org with a link icon is at the bottom.

Casey Doherty@caseydoherty· Jul 1

I’m sick-sick for the first time in awhile (ie not chronic illness sick), and my sweet sweet sweet partner surprised me with this mug filled with cough drops and a masked-outdoor back rub. My angel on earth🥹

Greenish teal mug with the word “Pisces” and two fish on it, filled up with Ricola cough drops.

Casey Doherty@caseydoherty· Jun 25

Thank you to Sen. Duckworth & Rep. Pressley for speaking at our briefing yesterday. On the 4th anniversary of Dobbs, we gathered to discuss the challenges disabled people face when seeking repro health care & garner support for the Reproductive Health Care Accessibility Act. We continue to fight!

Screen capture of a Zoom webinar featuring an ASL interpreter in the top window and Representative Ayanna Pressley (MA-07) in the bottom window. The caption reads, "And it's always good to be shoulder-to-shoulder with my movement partners, from disability justice and reproductive justice freedom organizations. Reproductive healthcare is a fundamental right. We are in the crosshairs of a coordin-" (the text cuts off there).

Screen capture of a Zoom webinar featuring an ASL interpreter in the top window and Senator Tammy Duckworth in the bottom window. The caption reads, "The bill would help people with disabilities get access to timely, informed, and culturally competent reproductive health care. The legislation is so needed, but we need your help to make it the law of the land. And I think it's a first step. There's more for us to do, even beyond" (the text cuts off there).

Casey Doherty@caseydoherty· Jun 18

So very proud of my partner Charles for concluding another school year today. No matter what happens at the national, state, or county level, he fights to ensure his students are safe, loved, and integrated into their community.

Charles and Casey standing in front of the Department of Health and Human Services building. They are wearing masks, jeans, and red protest shirts.

Casey Doherty@caseydoherty· Jun 18

This has been a horrifying week to be a disabled person and work in disability policy in the US. But today I got the perfect picture of my girls, so that helped. Action shot when I said “does anyone want cuddles” after I woke up:

Photo from bed of a tuxedo cat in action leaping onto the bed. Her little front legs are splayed out as she leaps. Behind her is another tuxedo cat in a cat tree.

Casey Doherty@caseydoherty· Jun 12

'Twas a fun and busy week. Wishing everyone a restful weekend! I certainly need one 😅 🌻

Selfie of Charles and Casey in a car. Charles is a multiracial man wearing a navy suit, a striped blue, maroon, and white tie, and a black KN95 mask. Casey is a white woman with curled dark blonde hair wearing a black dress, a black KN95 mask, and fun multicolored lightning bolt earrings.

Casey Doherty@caseydoherty· Jun 2

Light after-work reading, featuring some of my garden 🪴 #ScholarCrip loading...

My hand holding the 7th edition Publication Manual of the American Psychological Association. It is a spiral bound book with a green, light orange, deep orange, and blue color blocked cover. In the background are flowers and vegetable plants from my patio garden.

Casey Doherty@caseydoherty· Jun 1

Welcome to the @americanprogress.bsky.social Disability Justice Initiative, Raven! We are so excited to have you on the team for the summer! @aapd.com

A selfie of Raven on the left and Casey on the right. Both are smiling in front of white flowers, trees, buildings, and a blue sky with slight clouds.

Casey Doherty@caseydoherty· May 29

It’s World Mask Week! Where do you mask? Here are Charles and I masked at the US Botanic Garden. It’s not about being perfect, it’s about community care and cleaner air (unintentional rhyme)! #MaskUp

A selfie of Casey and Charles at the US Botanic Gardens, with blue sky and greenery behind them. Casey is a white woman with dark blonde hair wearing sunglasses, a black KN95 mask, and a red shirt. Charles is a multiracial man wearing a black KN95 mask, a red shirt, and a patterned Patagonia jacket.

Casey Doherty@caseydoherty· May 21

In a dissenting opinion in today's Hamm v. Smith decision, Justice Thomas argued against the precedent that the 8th Amendment's prohibition on cruel and unusual punishment bars the execution of people with intellectual disabilities.

HAMM v. SMITH THOMAS, J., dissenting III “Some of our most ‘egregious’ cases have been those in which we have granted relief based on an unfounded Eighth Amendment claim,” and Atkins is certainly near the top of the list. Glossip v. Gross, 576 U. S. 863, 905–906 (2015) (THOMAS, J., concurring). Atkins’s rejection of “the historical meaning of the [Eighth] Amendmen[t],” see Ramos, 590 U. S., at 106, has denied the justice governments have given to murder victims from time immemorial, Glossip, 576 U. S., at 905–906 (THOMAS, J., concurring). And it degrades the mildly intellectually disabled by putting them “on a level with . . . infants, imbeciles, and domestic animals”—those who cannot “‘have known better.’” C. S. Lewis, The Humanitarian Theory of Punishment, 13 Issues in Religion and Psychotherapy 147, 151 (1987); see Atkins, 536 U. S., at 318, 319–320. In a future case, the Court should overrule Atkins and restore “the Cruel and Unusual Punishments Clause’s fixed meaning in resolving any challenge brought under it.” Grants Pass, 603 U. S., at 562 (THOMAS, J., concurring). For now, I respectfully dissent.

Casey Doherty@caseydoherty· May 19

Front row seat to @colin-seeberger.bsky.social and @gbedekovics.bsky.social talking SAVE Act and threats to voting rights

Two panelists speaking and holding microphones in front of CAP IDEAS conference-branded signage. Cameras are focused on them.

Casey Doherty@caseydoherty· May 19

At @americanprogress.bsky.social IDEAS Conference today - let me know if you're here too!

View from the balcony of the Mayflower Hotel ballroom, featuring a panel on stage. Panelists are Rep. Greg Casar, Rep. Maxwell Frost, and Rep. Lauren Underwood. The moderator is Catherine Rampell.

Casey Doherty@caseydoherty· May 18

@seemiaroll.bsky.social and I have been thoroughly enjoying our spring conference schedule😋🍭 Had the best time talking higher ed access for disabled students last week! Thanks, Coalition on Accessibility in Higher Education!

Casey and Mia pose with full size Starburst and Twizzler candy bars by a table with a ton of candy options (Skittles, Nerds, Airheads, chocolate bars, and more). Mia’s expression conveys excitement and Casey’s does too (behind her mask).

Casey Doherty@caseydoherty· May 16

Saturday shout out to my partner, who is always there to serve as a back rest at a protest, bring me home after a long event because he knows I’ll be in pain, and check in about how many spoons I have. I’m so grateful. Thx for the pic @exceedhergrasp1.bsky.social! Ft. @davidandshaina.bsky.social❤️

On the right side of the image are Casey and Charles - a white woman with dark blonde hair wearing a red shirt and sunglasses and holding a mask (seated) and a multiracial man wearing a red shirt and a black mask (standing). Charles has his hands resting on Casey’s shoulders.
On the left side is another couple - a Black man wearing a red shirt and red mask and a light-skinned woman wearing a red shirt and red mask sitting in a wheelchair.

Casey Doherty@caseydoherty· May 15

I had a great time with my DisCo friends at @lydiaxzbrown.com campaign fundraiser last week! If you live in MD District 7A or don’t but you care about disability justice, interdependence, economic stability for everyone, and more, check out Ly Xīnzhèn's campaign website: brownformaryland.com

Kenrya, Casey, and Meier pose together and smile. Behind them is a vining tree, a brick wall, and a darkening cloudy sky.

Casey Doherty@caseydoherty· May 13

I joined @meactnet.bsky.social on the steps of the Department of Health and Human Services yesterday to fight for Medicaid access/expansion and against harmful work requirements that will make our community sicker. #MillionsMissing

Casey, a white woman with dark blonde hair wearing jeans and a red shirt that says “Still Sick Still Fighting,” stands and speaks into a microphone. Behind her are government buildings, flags, and blue sky.

Casey Doherty@caseydoherty· May 12

Today is Myalgic Encephalomyelitis (ME) Awareness Day. It's a complex, chronic neurological disease that affects at least 15-30 million people worldwide (but likely far, far more). ME, caused by tick borne diseases and COVID for me, has changed my life completely.

Casey, a white woman with long blonde hair, sitting on a front stoop. She is wearing a red shirt that says “Still Sick Still Fighting” and black leggings.

Casey Doherty@caseydoherty· May 11

When the conference ends, the shenanigans begin.

Mia and Casey laying on a CAP-branded stage beneath chairs. In the chairs are two golden retriever/yellow lab mix service dogs. Mia and Casey are holding up microphones so it looks like the dogs are having a press conference and speaking into the microphones. It is a very silly scene.

Casey Doherty@caseydoherty· May 8

Feeling grateful and energized after the @americanprogress.bsky.social 2nd annual Disability Reproductive Equity Summit earlier this week. We identified what orgs and advocates working at the intersection of disability and reproductive equity need, and who in our movement has resources to share.

Mia Ives-Rublee on stage speaking to an audience of masked attendees. On stage are chairs, a podium, two American flags, and a backdrop with Center for American Progress branding. The screen reads, "Disability Reproductive Equity Summit." There is CART captioning and an ASL interpreter on the left side of the room.

Casey Doherty@caseydoherty· Apr 26

Join me on Tuesday at the Capitol to fight for a living wage for all! Members of Congress will launch the Living Wage For All Act at the House Triangle — the highest minimum wage ever introduced in U.S. history. Learn more about the bill and the event here: www.mobilize.us/onefairwage/...

Selfie of Casey, a white woman with dark blonde hair wearing a black KN95 mask. She is wearing a black shirt with white lettering that reads, “Raise the Minimum Wage” in all caps.

Casey Doherty@caseydoherty· Apr 22

Important new #scholarcrip from my friends at @genpatient.bsky.social! www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...