Mike Oxford has been an active member and organizer in the disability rights movement for the past 25 years. For the past 15 years, he has been the Executive Director of the Topeka Independent Living Resource Center. He is co-founder of the Kansas American Disabled for Attendant Programs Today (ADAPT) Chapter, and a national ADAPT organizer.Mike served on the Board of the National Council on Independent Living (NCIL) for 9 years; he is the immediate past president of NCIL, having served two terms in that position. Mike served six years on the Board of Directors with the Disability Rights Center (DRC) of Kansas, the state of Kansas’ Protection and Advocacy organization, and is the Board President of the Atlantis Community in Denver, CO. Mike also served on the Kansas Association of Centers of Independent Living (KACIL) Board of Directors and the Statewide Independent Living Counsel of Kansas (SILCK).
