 She currently serves as the senior policy advisor with DREDF, focusing on their healthcare research initiatives.Mary Lou Breslin was born in October 1944 and is a well-known figure in the disabled community through her activism and achievements for changing the way people with disabilities live their daily lives.She grew up with a polio-related disability in the 1950-1960's and had to face society’s harsh psychological and physical obstacles that came along with her visible physical disability.