Lorri Shealy Unumb is a lawyer, mother of three teenage boys, and an internationally renowned autism advocate. She began her career as an appellate attorney with the United States Department of Justice and then as a full-time law professor. Following her son\u2019s diagnosis with autism, she began volunteering for autism causes, writing ground-breaking autism insurance legislation for South Carolina (\u201cRyan\u2019s Law\u201d) that passed in 2007 and served as the catalyst for the national movement toward autism insurance reform. She served for a decade as the head of state government affairs for the national nonprofit Autism Speaks, and now serves as the CEO of The Council of Autism Service Providers. She is also the founder of the annual Autism Law Summit and is author of \u201cAutism and the Law.\u201d<\/p>\n
For her local, national, and international advocacy efforts, Lorri has been recognized with<\/p>\n
Her work has been profiled on CNN, on NPR\u2019s \u201cMorning Edition,\u201d and in Town&Country magazine, from whom she received one of three 2009 \u201cWomen Who Make a Difference\u201d awards.\u00a0 She is also profiled in the American Academy of Pediatrics 2013 book \u201cAutism Spectrum Disorders:\u00a0 What Every Parent Needs to Know.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":24543,"parent":0,"template":"","team_category":[],"class_list":["post-24541","team","type-team","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"\n