Colin Killick
“I’m excited to be involved because in this country, we often have one healthcare system for people with disabilities and another for everyone else—and the one for our community comes with a lot of strings attached. With FORESIGHT, we have a chance to create a system that works for everyone.”
Colin Killick is the incoming Executive Director of Disability Policy Consortium, a cross-disability advocacy and research nonprofit based in the Greater Boston area. He is a 2012 graduate of Williams College and a 2018 graduate of the Harvard Kennedy School of Government, where he founded the student Disability Justice Caucus and won the Robert F. Kennedy Award for Public Service. The Housing Advocacy Leadership Team (HALT) that he co-founded at Disability Policy Consortium has won nearly $3 million in state funding to provide affordable accessible housing to low-income people with disabilities in Massachusetts. He lives in Somerville, MA, where he chairs the Mayor’s Commission for Persons with Disabilities, and in his spare time he writes and performs poetry, has a cooking blog, and obsesses over Star Trek and Dungeons and Dragons. He has a neuromotor disorder and a learning disability, and believes his 504 accommodations changed his life—something that the courageous organizing of disabled activists made possible.