Leigh Anne McKingsley: Creating Pathways to Justice for the Developmentally Disabled

Tony Mantor: Why Not Me the World

Tony Mantor

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🗓️ 18 April 2025

⏱️ 29 minutes

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Send us a text Leigh Anne McKingsley shares her journey as Senior Director of Disability and Justice Initiatives for the ARC, where she oversees the National Center on Criminal Justice and Disability to address the invisibility and injustices faced by people with intellectual and developmental disabilities in the justice system. • The ARC began as a parent advocacy group fighting against institutionalization of children with disabilities and has evolved over 70+ years to promote inclusion th...

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0:00.0	Welcome to Why Not Me the World Podcast, hosted by Tony Mayator.
0:11.6	Broadcasting from Music City, USA, Nashville, Tennessee.
0:18.0	Join us as our guests tell us their stories
0:20.9	Some will make you laugh
0:22.5	Some will make you cry
0:24.3	Real life people
0:26.9	Who will inspire
0:28.8	And show that you are not alone
0:32.5	In this world
0:34.0	Hopefully you gain more awareness
0:37.1	Acceptance and a better understanding for
0:40.3	autism around the world.
0:47.3	Hi, I'm Tony Mantor. Welcome to Why Not Me the World Humanity Over Handcuffs special event.
0:56.9	We are delighted to have Leanne McKingsley join us today. She serves as Senior Director of Disability and Justice Initiatives for the Arc and Overseas the Arc's National Center on Criminal Justice and Disability, a clearinghouse for research, information, evaluation,
1:13.2	training, and technical assistance for criminal justice and disability professionals. She possesses
1:19.3	a tremendous amount of knowledge, and we are grateful to have her join us today. Thanks for coming on.
1:24.0	Thank you so much, Tony. Oh, it's my pleasure. So if you would, expand on how you got
1:29.0	into what you do. My background was more mental health as well as you were talking. And I got
1:35.7	interested as I was working through my master's of social work and then I got a dual masters in
1:42.4	public administration. We had our own jail
1:45.1	overcrowding issue here in Texas that I was interested in addressing. That also intersected with
1:54.1	mental health issues. And I was working with Senator Moncrief's office here in Fort Worth, Texas.
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