Bio
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 Ann Arbor, Michigan. She is an experienced trainer in all
aspects of Supplemental Security Income (SSI), and Social Security Disability
Insurance (SSDI). Additional interests include alternatives to guardianship,
disability law and policy, persons with cognitive disabilities in the
criminal justice system, parents with disabilities, and fetal alcohol
syndrome/fetal alcohol effects. 
In partnership with her husband, Bob Liston, Executive Director of Montana
Fair Housing and State Organizer for ADAPT, Marsha has also presented
on disability culture, and choice and risk as a necessary part of life
for persons with disabilities. Marsha is a regular trainer for and/or
consultant, both in and out of Montana, to consumer and professional
groups, state and tribal vocational rehabilitation agencies, Social Security
Administration personnel, state and local Arc's, Centers for Independent
Living, developmental disabilities/mental health staff, and university
classes in law, business, social policy, nursing, special education,
and social work. She has written an advocacy manual on SSI/SSDI, entitled
Don't Look for Logic, published by the University of Montana in 2005 and
formerly published by Arc Michigan (May 2000).
Marsha is active nationally with both ADAPT and Not Dead Yet. She
collects rocks, bubbles and bat paraphernalia, and she loves chocolate
and the color purple.
Her life and work are guided by two quotes:
"An educator in a situation of inequality
is either an oppressor or a liberator"
and
"None of us are free unless we are all
free."
Online Publications
Don't Look for Logic; An Advocate's Manual for Negotiating the SSI and SSDI Programs
"Disability" Defined
Native
American Business Development Resources
Paychecks & SSI
Benefits
SSA
Work Incentives 2006
SSI
and SSDI Similarities and Differences
Changes
in SSI & SSDI for 2006
Identifying
Students Eligible For SSI & Work Incentives
SGA & TWP
PASS
Plans Turn Student Dreams Into Reality
Benefits & Resources:
A Quick Overview
Considerations
for Customers with Disabilities in the WIA System
Meeting
the Challenges & Seizing the Opportunities in Indian Country
How
Work Impacts Multiple Benefits: A Quick Overview for WIA Partners
Treading
with Care upon the Earth
It
Doesn’t Take a Rocket Scientist
Weighing The Risks: Some Tools for Benefits Analysis & Planning for SSI & SSDI Recipients
Alternatives To Guardianship
Poverty and Disability
Don't Hurt with Your Help! The Case for Benefits Analysis
Ticket to Work: Great Opportunities and Room for Improvement
Keep the Bucks While You Start Making a Buck:
12/13/04 METNET - SSA Part 1: An Introduction to SSA
1/6/05 METNET - SSA Part 2: Social Security Work Incentives
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