Mark Johnson, M.Ed. is presently Director of Advocacy at the Shepherd Center in Atlanta. He holds a M.Ed., Guidance and Counseling from the University of North Carolina at Charlotte. Mark is a graduate of the Leadership Denver Program and Atlanta Regional Commission (ARC’s) Regional Leadership Institute and has extensive background in independent living, NC, CO and GA. He is the Past President, Fund for Southern Communities, a progressive fund that supports social change in NC, SC and GA and a founder of American Disabled for Accessible Public Transportation and American Disabled for Attendant Programs Today (ADAPT).