Parent Advocates

Ann Neumann

Ann resides in Williamsville, and is the parent of four daughters. She graduated from Brandeis University, where she completed her Bachelor of Arts in Sociology, specializing in Health Care. Ann also attended California State University at Northridge, where she took courses towards an MBA in Non-profit Admininistration. She was employed in California at Didi Hirsch Community Health Center for four years. After moving to Western New York in 1991, Ann became involved with the United Cerebral Palsy Children's Center, where one of her children attended. Since then, she has volunteered as a parent member on the Committee for Special Education in her home district. For three years, Ann was an inclusion specialist at a summer day camp in Elma. In 1998, she became Executive Director of Yad B'Yad, an advocacy organization that supports people with developmental disabilities through educational, recreational, and social growth programming. Ann has assisted hundreds of parents each year through her organization.