Ryan Manriquez is a public policy professional, disability justice advocate, and power wheelchair user who built community where it wasn’t. He made history as the first transfer student and first physically disabled student elected President of the Associated Students of UC Davis, and later represented over 60,000 graduate and professional students as President of the UC Graduate and Professional Council. Today he serves as a CivicSpark AmeriCorps Fellow at the Metropolitan Transportation Commission and as Board Treasurer at the Center for Independent Living in Berkeley, where he was recently honored as a Disability Justice Changemaker. His life’s work is to be a bridge by connecting the Disability community to the systems that shape our lives, and ensuring our voices are not just heard, but centered.