Rachita Singh
Policy Manager
Rachita is the Policy Manager at AAPD. In this role, she develops AAPD’s stances on policy issues areas and advances AAPD’s mission through its policy work.
She got her B.A. in Government from the College of William and Mary and a Master of Public Policy from Duke University. She has worked in various professional fields, including interning on Capitol Hill, working as an assistant paralegal in a law firm, and working as a project assistant at Howard University.
Rachita was introduced to disability rights and AAPD during a summer internship with AAPD through the Google Policy Fellowship program. She believes the broader public does not understand disability or see how entwined disability and politics are, and she hopes to help change both of those things. She aspires to make disability policy a prominent aspect of politics that both disabled and non-disabled people pay more attention to and to ensure that people with disabilities are not treated as second-class citizens.