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NBC profiles Elana Meyers Taylor as a parent and disability advocate. She and her husband, Nicholas Taylor, raise sons Nico and Noah. “My boys travel with me as much as possible… All season long, six months on the road, they’re with me.”
She uses her platform “to grow awareness and show what disability looks like on a day-to-day basis.” “I think the biggest problem we have in this society is that we don’t value those who aren’t able to achieve as much.” She is “a full proponent of everyone having value regardless of what they achieve.”
Her roles are public and specific. She served as 2019 president of the Women’s Sports Foundation and joined the Georgia Council on Developmental Disabilities in 2022. She works with Classroom Champions, Right To Play, the Global Down Syndrome Foundation, and GiGi’s Playhouse. When competition ends, she will “lean more fully into advocacy work.”
She is interested in working with Special Olympics. “Sport is just a great vehicle to learn… for the disability community in particular, it’s really important, because it allows them the freedom to be themselves… where they can uniquely express themselves.”
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By: Talia Barrington
