Andy Anderson joined Disability Rights North Carolina in January 2020 as an advocate for the Disaster Recovery project. In March 2021 he moved to the Protection & Advocacy for Beneficiaries of the Representative Payees team. Anders…
Jen Andrew joined Disability Rights North Carolina in June 2022 as the communications coordinator. Her background includes work in philanthropy, public libraries, and healthcare. Her passion for disability rights comes from both her…
Alize joined DRNC as an Administrative Legal Assistant in 2024. She received her bachelor’s degree from North Carolina Central University where she majored in Criminal Justice/Juvenile Justice. Prior to working at DRNC, Alize w…
Charlie Barnes joined DRNC as the agency’s chief financial officer when it became the state’s Protection & Advocacy agency in 2007. Barnes has over 35 years’ experience in nonprofit accounting. Before DRNC, he worked 23 years with No…
Dylan Bland is a third-year Juris Doctor candidate at Campbell University School of Law. Dylan has previously interned with the New Hanover County Public Defender’s Office and worked in Campbell Law’s Driver’s License Restoration Clin…
Gabby Bush joined the DRNC team in 2010 as its first outreach specialist. In that role she met thousands of North Carolinians with disabilities and presented on topics such as the history of the P&A system and how to be a better self-advo…
Vivianette Ortiz Caraballo joined the DRNC team in 2021 as a bilingual case advocate and has since advanced to a supervisory role. In this role, Ortiz Caraballo remains dedicated to efficiently coordinating and administering DRNC’s sta…
Cari Carson joined DRNC in December 2023 as supervising attorney on the Education Team. After graduating from Yale University, she worked as a special education teacher in rural Louisiana. Carson subsequently earned her law degree from…
Katie Castro joined DRNC in July 2019 on the Protection and Advocacy for Beneficiaries of the Representative Payees team. Her work focuses on investigations involving Social Security beneficiaries and their representative payees. Sh…