Shain Neumeier#Current source review

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| name = Shain Neumeier

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| birth_date = {{birth year and age|1987}}

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| nationality = American

| education = Bachelor of arts, Smith College, 2009

Juris doctor, Suffolk University Law School, 2012

| occupation = Attorney, activist

| known_for = Disability, youth, and transgender rights activism

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| 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

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Shain A. Mahaffey NeumeierPOWELL, 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. (born 1987) is an American autistic and nonbinary transgender attorney.{{Cite news|title=Activists Tell FDA Head: Ban Electric Shocks on People With Autism - Rewire.News|language=en-US|work=Rewire.News|url=https://rewire.news/article/2018/03/16/activists-tell-fda-head-ban-electric-shocks-people-autism/|access-date=2018-05-14|archive-date=2018-03-22|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180322143006/https://rewire.news/article/2018/03/16/activists-tell-fda-head-ban-electric-shocks-people-autism/|url-status=live}} Neumeier advocates against coercive and forced treatment, including advocacy to close the Judge Rotenberg Center, an institution for people with developmental disabilities.{{Cite journal|last1=Adams|first1=DL|last2=Erevelles|first2=Nirmala|date=2017-04-21|title=Unexpected spaces of confinement: Aversive technologies, intellectual disability, and "bare life"|journal=Punishment & Society|volume=19|issue=3|pages=348–365|doi=10.1177/1462474517705147|s2cid=152056345|issn=1462-4745}} 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, cleft lip and palate and ectodermal dysplasia.{{Cite web |last=Neumeier |first=Shain M. |author-link=Shain Neumeier |date=2015-05-21 |title=About |url=https://silencebreakingsound.wordpress.com/about/ |access-date=2023-06-07 |website=Silence Breaking Sound |language=en |archive-date=2023-04-11 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230411190231/https://silencebreakingsound.wordpress.com/about/ |url-status=live }}Working with Autistic Transgender and Non-Binary People: Research, Practice and Experience. (2021). United Kingdom: Jessica Kingsley Publishers. p188 (contributor profile){{Cite web |last=Wang |first=Alexandra |title= Shain Neumeier: Advice on Autism, Non-Binaries, and Transgenderism: Treatment, Laws, and Ethics |url=https://madameactivist.wordpress.com/2018/10/09/interview-with-shain-neumeier-advice-on-autism-gender-non-binaries-and-transgenderism-treatment-laws-and-ethics/ |access-date=2024-10-14 |date=2018-09-23}}

Education and career

Neumeier studied at Smith College and Suffolk University Law School and later worked on youth rights policy issues for CAFETY.{{Cite web|url=http://autismnow.org/wp-content/uploads/2013/06/Autistic-View-Of-Employment-Edited.pdf|title=An Autistic View of Employment: Advice, Essays, Stories, and More from Autistic Self Advocates|last=Autism NOW Center|date=June 2013|access-date=2018-05-14|archive-date=2017-11-11|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20171111164947/http://autismnow.org/wp-content/uploads/2013/06/Autistic-View-Of-Employment-Edited.pdf|url-status=live}} As an attorney, they are in solo practice in Massachusetts. Their law practice represents people facing petitions for involuntary commitment.{{Cite web|title=For lawyers with autism, the work often pairs up with things they do well|url=https://www.abajournal.com/web/article/for-lawyers-with-autism-the-work-often-pairs-up-with-things-they-do-well|access-date=2020-05-17|website=ABA Journal|language=en|archive-date=2020-06-12|archive-url=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|url-status=live |last1=Ward |first1=Stephanie Francis }}

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. Neumeier also testified before the United Nations special rapporteur on torture about the JRC.{{Cite web|title=Stop the shocks: New toolkit builds on autistic community's anti-JRC work - Autistic Women & Nonbinary Network (AWN)|url=https://awnnetwork.org/stop-the-shocks-new-toolkit-builds-on-autistic-communitys-anti-jrc-work/|last=daVanport|first=Sharon|website=www.awnnetwork.org|language=en-US|access-date=2020-05-17|archive-date=2020-05-19|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200519023939/https://awnnetwork.org/stop-the-shocks-new-toolkit-builds-on-autistic-communitys-anti-jrc-work/|url-status=live}}

In Marquis Who's Who featured Neumeier in their 2021 October Maker's List.{{Cite web |last= |first= |date=5 Oct 2021 |title=In Honor of National Arts and Humanities Month, Marquis Who's Who Presents the Arts, Culture, Sports and Entertainment Moguls Maker's List |url=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 |access-date=2023-06-07 |website=Cision PR Newswire |publisher=Marquis Who's Who |language=en |archive-date=2022-11-29 |archive-url=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 |url-status=live }}

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.{{Cite web |last=Cipriani |first=Belo |date=20 Feb 2019 |title=Seeing in the Dark: New book raises profile of disability community |url=https://www.ebar.com/story.php?ch=news&sc=news&id=272555 |access-date=2023-06-07 |website=Bay Area Reporter |language=en-us}}

= Selected publications =

Shain A M Neumeier & Lydia X Z Brown, [https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/34247676/ Beyond Diversity and Inclusion: Understanding and Addressing Ableism, Heterosexism, and Transmisia in the Legal Profession: Comment on Blanck, Hyseni, and Altunkol Wise's National Study of the Legal Profession], {{doi|10.1017/amj.2021.3}}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.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. {{doi|10.1017/amj.2021.1}}

References

External links

[https://silencebreakingsound.wordpress.com Neumeier's personal blog]
[https://www.disabilityjusticelaw.com Neumeier's law firm] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180522112242/https://www.disabilityjusticelaw.com/ |date=2018-05-22 }}

Category:1987 births

Category:American abortion-rights activists

Category:American transgender people

Category:American non-binary people

Category:American autistic people

Category:Autism activists

Category:Autism rights movement

Category:American disability rights activists

Category:LGBTQ people from Massachusetts

Category:American LGBTQ rights activists

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Category:Massachusetts lawyers