Nancy Weiss is an Advisor to the National Leadership Consortium and former Director of Disability Initiatives in the College of Health Sciences. Ms. Weiss has more than 35 years' experience in the field of intellectual and developmental disabilities. She was the former Executive Director of TASH, an international advocacy association committed to full inclusion for people with disabilities. Her contribution to the book "Pain and Shock in America: Politics, Advocacy, and the Controversial Treatment of People with Disabilities" The first book to be written on the Judge Rotenberg Center and their use of painful interventions to control the behavior of children and adults with disabilities.