About Nicole Adler
Nicole Adler is a speaker, host and human 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 is 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 or website NicoleforLove.com.
In mid-2023, Nicole launched “The No No Show” on YouTube as a platform to highlight advocacy effort and policies impacting human rights, and to interview people who are spearheading social justice movements or advancing equality and inclusion for all people.
Recently, Adler performed in the live stage production of “Eternal Love” at San Francisco’s Z Space Theater and co-wrote, produced, and acted in “First X” a short film that was selected and screened by five Film Festivals across the U.S. and selected for an award. It’s one of Adler’s dreams to see more people with disabilities cast in television and movies roles and have more visibility in Hollywood that also reflects the true diversity in the world. She feels that actors with disabilities should be playing the roles of characters with disabilities.
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.” Since the pandemic, Adler has partner with dozens of organizations as an event keynote speaker, panelist and advisor. She shared her personal journey with mental health in the 2021 Mental Health Webinar for the Disability Thrive Initiative.
For 2024, Adler will be focusing on campaigns to End the R-Word, and will participate in Pride events on both coasts, and 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 human rights and inclusion for all.
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