Susan Nussbaum is a longtime disability rights activist, and started working with Access Living in 1980 as the organization’s first publicist.  She also created the Empowered Fe Fes (slang for female), a support, sexuality and disability identity group for girls, which over the years, has served over 300 girls.  Susan is also a playwright, performer and director, and her work has been seen at Steppenwolf, Goodman, Victory Gardens, Second City, Remains, Live Bait, Northlight, Bailiwick and the Organic Theatre among others.  Her play No One As Nasty appears in Beyond Victims and Villains:  Contemporary Plays by Disabled Playwrights, V.A. Lewis, ed.Theatre Communications Group, 2005.