Shain Neumeier Explained

Shain Neumeier
Nationality:American
Education:Bachelor of arts, Smith College, 2009Juris doctor, Suffolk University Law School, 2012
Occupation:Attorney, activist
Known For:Disability, youth, and transgender rights activism
Partner:Lydia Brown
Father:Ed Neumeier
Awards:Leadership in Advocacy Award, Association of University Centers on Disabilities; Outstanding Young Lawyer of the Year Award, Massachusetts Bar Association
Honors:Phi Delta Phi

Shain A. Mahaffey Neumeier[1] (born 1987) is an American autistic and nonbinary transgender attorney.[2] Neumeier advocates against coercive and forced treatment, including advocacy to close the Judge Rotenberg Center, an institution for people with developmental disabilities.[3] They are also an activist for autism rights, disability rights, and other associated causes.

Personal life

Neumeier has multiple disabilities including post-traumatic stress disorder and cleft lip and palate.[4] [5]

Education and career

Neumeier studied at Smith College and Suffolk University Law School and later worked on youth rights policy issues for CAFETY.[6] As an attorney, they are in solo practice in Massachusetts. Their law practice represents people facing petitions for involuntary commitment.[7]

Activism and writing

Neumeier advocates against coercive and forced treatment, and has called for the closure of the Judge Rotenberg Center (JRC), an institution which uses electric skin shock aversion therapy on people with developmental disabilities.[2] [3] Neumeier also testified before the United Nations special rapporteur on torture about the JRC.[8]

In Marquis Who's Who featured Neumeier in their 2021 October Maker's List.[9]

Neumeier's essay Back into the Fires that Forged Us appeared in the 2018 book Resistance and Hope: Essays by Disabled People (ISBN 9780463255704). Their essay addressed how disability activism has been criminalized in the United States.[10]

Selected publications

External links

Notes and References

  1. POWELL, R. M. Disability Reproductive Justice. University of Pennsylvania Law Review, [s. l.], v. 170, n. 7, p. 1851–1903, 2022. Disponível em: https://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&db=a9h&AN=163323797&site=eds-live&scope=site. Acesso em: 7 jun. 2023.
  2. News: Activists Tell FDA Head: Ban Electric Shocks on People With Autism - Rewire.News. en-US. Rewire.News. 2018-05-14. 2018-03-22. https://web.archive.org/web/20180322143006/https://rewire.news/article/2018/03/16/activists-tell-fda-head-ban-electric-shocks-people-autism/. live.
  3. Adams. DL. Erevelles. Nirmala. 2017-04-21. Unexpected spaces of confinement: Aversive technologies, intellectual disability, and "bare life". Punishment & Society. 19. 3. 348–365. 10.1177/1462474517705147. 152056345. 1462-4745.
  4. Web site: Neumeier . Shain M. . Shain Neumeier . 2015-05-21 . About . 2023-06-07 . Silence Breaking Sound . en . 2023-04-11 . https://web.archive.org/web/20230411190231/https://silencebreakingsound.wordpress.com/about/ . live .
  5. Working with Autistic Transgender and Non-Binary People: Research, Practice and Experience. (2021). United Kingdom: Jessica Kingsley Publishers. p188 (contributor profile)
  6. Web site: An Autistic View of Employment: Advice, Essays, Stories, and More from Autistic Self Advocates. Autism NOW Center. June 2013. 2018-05-14. 2017-11-11. https://web.archive.org/web/20171111164947/http://autismnow.org/wp-content/uploads/2013/06/Autistic-View-Of-Employment-Edited.pdf. live.
  7. Web site: For lawyers with autism, the work often pairs up with things they do well. 2020-05-17. ABA Journal. en. 2020-06-12. https://web.archive.org/web/20200612111658/https://www.abajournal.com/web/article/for-lawyers-with-autism-the-work-often-pairs-up-with-things-they-do-well. live.
  8. Web site: Stop the shocks: New toolkit builds on autistic community's anti-JRC work - Autistic Women & Nonbinary Network (AWN). daVanport. Sharon. www.awnnetwork.org. en-US. 2020-05-17. 2020-05-19. https://web.archive.org/web/20200519023939/https://awnnetwork.org/stop-the-shocks-new-toolkit-builds-on-autistic-communitys-anti-jrc-work/. live.
  9. Web site: 5 Oct 2021 . In Honor of National Arts and Humanities Month, Marquis Who's Who Presents the Arts, Culture, Sports and Entertainment Moguls Maker's List . 2023-06-07 . Cision PR Newswire . . en . 2022-11-29 . https://web.archive.org/web/20221129173431/https://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/in-honor-of-national-arts-and-humanities-month-marquis-whos-who-presents-the-arts-culture-sports-and-entertainment-moguls-makers-list-301392606.html . live .
  10. Web site: Cipriani . Belo . 20 Feb 2019 . Seeing in the Dark: New book raises profile of disability community . 2023-06-07 . . en-us.
  11. Editor's Notes. LGBT Law Notes, [s. l.], p. 55, 2021. Disponível em: https://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&db=qth&AN=151925849&site=eds-live&scope=site. Acesso em: 7 jun. 2023.
  12. Blanck, P., Hyseni, F., & Wise, F. A. (2021). Diversity and inclusion in the american legal profession: Discrimination and bias reported by lawyers with disabilities and lawyers who identify as LGBTQ+. American Journal of Law and Medicine, 47(1), 9-61.

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