BIO
About Nicole Adler
Nicole Adler is a motivational speaker, actor, and equal rights advocate for the developmental disabilities and LGBTQ communities. Since 2014, Adler has been a Governor appointed member of the State Council on Developmental Disabilities, a board member for The Next Step Program, and was recently on the advisory committee for California’s Disability Thrive Initiative, which provides statewide training, support and resources to Californians of all abilities. Adler partnered with the California Department of Public Health on the announcement of COVID-19 vaccines, and co-hosted The Arc of California’s statewide Public Policy Conference. She a passionate advocate for inclusion, acceptance, equal rights, mental health, voting accessibility, disability representation in the media, housing rights and ending the R-word. You can listen to Adler express her views on these topics and more in a series of videos and public speaking engagements on her YouTube channel.
One of Adler’s dreams is to end the “R word.” Not only does she want to ban the R word, but she also advocates for all people with differences, not just those with Down syndrome, to be represented in Hollywood. She wants people with disabilities to be cast and have more visibility in Hollywood. She feels that actors with disabilities should be playing the roles of characters with disabilities, versus able-bodied actors acting like they’re disabled. Hollywood needs to recognize how valuable ALL people are and reflect the true diversity of the world we live in.
The Associated Press quoted Adler in an article about the COVID-19 pandemic’s impact on people with disabilities. People with Down syndrome are 10 times more likely to die if they get the virus. As someone with an extra chromosome, the pandemic was really scary for Adler, and changed her life. Adler said “I became really depressed during shelter-in-place, and put my life on hold.” She shared her personal journey with mental health to support others suffering from depression in the 2021 Mental Health Webinar for the Disability Thrive Initiative.
Additionally, Adler is increasing her role in the LGBTQ community and sharing her message of love and inclusion so all people can feel the power of love in relationships, instead of feeling judged as unworthy of having meaningful romantic relationships because of their disabilities.
Adler is ready and excited to bring her motivational messages of love and inclusion to any event or public awareness campaign. She loves sharing, talking, and being real about meaningful topics which affect people. In the past two years, Nicole has written and recorded videos for various organizations in the public, private and nonprofit sectors with an overarching theme of equal rights and inclusion for all.
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