The Autistic Self Advocacy Network (ASAN) is a national nonprofit organization run by and for autistic people that advances disability rights, self-advocacy, and the neurodiversity movement through public policy advocacy, education, and community organizing.
Disability and civil-rights legislation; Medicaid and home- and community-based services; independent living and community inclusion; inclusive education and school-discipline reform; employment and transition supports; guardianship and decision-making autonomy; opposition to coercive therapies, restraint and seclusion; voting access, criminal-justice reform, and participatory research and policy-making.
Primarily philanthropic support and individual donations, supplemented by foundation grants, program revenue, and occasional institutional or government grants.
ASAN Action (advocacy arm), ASAN PAC, founder Ari Ne'eman, and leaders such as Julia Bascom.
Non-profit (501(c)(3) disability advocacy organization)
