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Rob Harris is a Western Colorado father, caregiver, Certified IEP Facilitator, and systems advocate working across blindness, special education, Medicaid, and youth transition.
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Biographical information, approved quotations, photographs, and a concise briefing for journalists, policymakers, organizations, and community partners.
Press / Recognition
Featured in the Advance IDEA Coalition’s national response
· Rob Harris’s remarks as a Colorado parent advocate at the U.S. Department of Education/OSERS listening session were featured in the coalition’s response, highlighting IDEA accountability, inconsistent implementation across states, and the burden placed on families.
Read “Advocates Respond to OSERS Listening Session” on COPAA
Biographies
About Rob Harris
Standard bio
Rob Harris is a father, caregiver, Colorado Department of Education Certified IEP Facilitator, and disability-systems advocate from Grand Junction. His work spans blindness and Braille literacy, special education, assistive technology, Medicaid and HCBS, and youth self-determination. He brings family experience and a systems background to state and national policy conversations.
Rob and Isabelle
Rob and Isabelle Harris are a father-and-daughter advocacy team from Western Colorado. Isabelle is a 19-year-old Braille reader, assistive-technology user, white-cane traveler, and self-advocate. Together, they connect lived experience with practical systems change.
Approved quotations
In their own language.
“Systems should work for people—not require people to become experts just to survive them.”
Rob Harris · AdvocateDadCO
“If lived experience is missing from the room, the policy is missing the truth.”
Rob Harris · AdvocateDadCO
“Braille is not dead.”
Rob Harris · OSEP public remarks
“Stories show us where the system hurts people. Data show whether leaders are willing to see the pattern and fix it.”
Rob Harris · AdvocateDadCO
Photographs
Family and advocacy images
These photographs may be used in coverage or promotion directly related to Rob and Isabelle’s advocacy. Please credit “Courtesy of the Harris family” and preserve the supplied context.
White Cane Awareness family photo
Rob, Tyler, Susan, and Isabelle Harris together; Isabelle holds her white cane.
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Rob and Isabelle in Vail
Rob and Isabelle Harris together in the mountains of Colorado.
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Washington, D.C. briefing
The mission in one page.
Download the printable overview of Rob and Isabelle, the purpose of the trip, and their three working advocacy priorities. The same information is available in HTML on the D.C. Mission page.
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For interviews, speaking, advocacy partnerships, or Washington meeting coordination, contact Rob directly.
Email RobEmail: info@AdvocateDadCO.org