Nancy Brooks-Lane

Katherine Carol

Ellen Condon

James Corey

Doug Crandell

Jim Huston

Jennifer Jones

Marsha Katz

Cathryn Maddalena

Urban Miyares

Jeri Moore

Steven Savage

Corey Smith

Raymond Steffy

Molly Sullivan

Stephen Swain

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Marsha Katz

Marsha Katz (mrkatz@ruralinstitute.umt.edu) is a Project Director at the Rural Institute for RESEED, a national rural self-employment grant, and author of an advocacy manual on SSI/SSDI, entitled Don't Look for Logic, published by the Rural Institute, as well as many articles on benefits, self employment and working in Indian Country. Marsha has worked in disability rights for 25 years, coming to Montana in late 1998 after serving as Vice President of the Association for Community Advocacy in Michigan.

She is an experienced trainer on self-employment, and all aspects of Supplemental Security Income (SSI), and Social Security Disability Insurance (SSDI). For the past seven years much of her work has been in tribal communities across the country, and in rural/frontier communities. Formerly in Michigan, and currently in Montana, Marsha has been a regular trainer for and/or consultant to state and tribal vocational rehabilitation agencies, Workforce Investment Act partners, the Social Security Administration, Arc's, Centers for Independent Living, many consumer and professional groups, state and local developmental disabilities/mental health staff, and university classes in law, business, social policy, special education, and social work.