Staff
Alberta L. Orr, Executive Director
phone : 212-284-4160
email: alorr@dnnyc.net
Mailing address:
Disabilities Network of NYC
548 Broadway, 3rd Floor
New York, NY 10012
Biography:
Executive Director Alberta L. Orr brings nearly 30 years of experience in aging and disabilities, primarily in the vision rehabilitation field -- most recently 20 years at the American Foundation for the Blind (AFB), where she worked with individuals with multiple disabilities.
Prior to her work at AFB, Alberta served as the Executive Director of the East Bronx Council on Aging, where she doubled the agency budget in two years.
Alberta’s career has focused on collaboration, creating partnerships and coalition building at the national level. She formed the National Aging and Vision Network and carried out a seven year project, the National Agenda on Vision and Aging involving 141 professionals and consumers from across the country. She is also an effective advocate and lobbyist for issues at the forefront of the disability arena.
Alberta is known nationally and internationally for her five books, nearly 30 articles and book chapters and presentations related to aging, vision loss and rehabilitation.
Alberta has served as adjunct faculty with Hunter College since 1994 and most recently provided distance education courses in rehabilitation at Florida State University and the Pennsylvania College of Optometry.
She has served as a two-time delegate to the White House Conference on Aging. She represents North America on the Committee on the Elderly of the World Blind Union.
