Former Senior Advisor,
Able Americans
Melissa Ortiz formerly served as the National Center for Public Policy Research’s Senior Advisor for the Able Americans Project.
Melissa identifies as a “happy warrior” and is enthusiastic about driving a dialogue between people living with disabilities or chronic illness and policy makers across the political spectrum, especially conservatives. She has worked in the classroom in Nashville, Tennessee and in the nonprofit sector in New York City and Washington, DC. She was honored to serve as President Trump’s Commissioner of the Administration on Disabilities. The first female board member of The Conservative Caucus, one of the oldest conservative groups in existence, she currently resides in Washington, D.C. with her husband Tony and Service Dog Dachshund, Annie Oakley.
FEATURED APPEARANCES
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FEATURED COMMENTARIES
How Electric Car Propaganda Preys on the Disabled (May 2023)
Land of Opportunity… But Not For All (May 2023)
Candace Owens Is Wrong. Women Like Me Who Use Wheelchairs Can – And Should – Model Underwear. (April 2023)
Oh, The Places I Might Go! (March 2023)
Broken Bones or Broken Hearts? (March 2023)
Lost Lessons of the Holocaust (January 2023)