Meet Our CEO
Drawing on 27 years of public policy experience in the nonprofit sector and as an elected official, Dan McConchie founded the Accessibility Policy Institute to champion accessibility rights nationwide.
Dan McConchie
CEO
Dan McConchie grew up in rural Indiana as the oldest of four boys. He joined the Army
National Guard on his 17th birthday and served for nine years in the infantry and military police while simultaneously going to college in Springfield, Missouri and then to graduate school outside Chicago, Illinois.
After graduating magna cum laude, Dan worked in the non-profit sector as a public policy expert for 18 years before deciding to run for elected office and becoming an Illinois State Senator.
In 2007, Dan was in a hit-and-run accident that left him with a spinal cord injury and no use of his legs. Undeterred from his quest to make the world a better place, he was the first paraplegic to win a state-level office in Illinois when he ran for the Illinois Senate in 2016. There he championed a myriad of issues including expanded accessibility for the disabled.
After serving nearly a decade in office, Senator McConchie started the Accessibility Policy Institute to take his quest to champion accessibility rights nationwide.
Most recently, he was appointed to the Air Carrier Access Act Advisory Committee to advise on issues related to the needs of passengers with disabilities in air travel.