National Leadership Program, Fall 2023
Elayne Otstot
Elayne Otstot was a Nonprofit Management Fellow in RespectAbility’s National Leadership Program for Fall 2023. RespectAbility is a nonprofit organization fighting stigmas and advancing opportunities so that people with disabilities can fully participate in all aspects of community.
Otstot is an aspiring public health and disability policy professional from the Huntsville, Alabama metro area. She is passionate about emergency management, disaster preparedness, disability access and inclusion, and health disparities affecting rural, disabled, and other underserved and marginalized communities.
She has worked as a project coordinator with the Administration for Community Living’s NCAPPS project through the Human Services Research Institute HSRI, and as a communications and outreach coordinator for the Alliance for Citizen Directed Supports.
Otstot has a Bachelor’s of Science in Public Health from the University of Texas at Arlington. While attending UTA, she served for two years as the Office for Disability Services’ representative to the Student Government at the President’s Round Table and led a community health education project on HPV Prevention. She is one of the first alumni of the Coelho Fellowship and an alumni of the American Association for People with Disabilities summer program (class of 2021).
