When I was growing up, I had no disabled women to look up to. This lack of role models made me feel very alone in my experiences — but the next generation of disabled girls and women won’t have to feel how I did. The Disability EmpowHer Network’s Letters from a Role Model program is working to connect disabled girls with successful adult counterparts to give them the example of a thriving disabled adult that I and so many like me never got. Disabled attorney and organizer Stephanie Woodward co-founded the network with her friend disability rights activist Leah Smith in December 2020.