Investigates the tensions caused by the CRDP as grassroots disability associations attempt to address their local members' needs.

Stephen J. Meyers is an Assistant Professor at the University of Washington with joint appointments in Law, Societies and Justice, International Studies, and Disability Studies. He has close to two decades of experience working with grassroots disability associations in the Global South as a researcher, advocate, and project implementer.

1. Spending down a grant; 2. Inhabiting Nicaraguan civil society at the intersection; 3. The problem with pretty little programs; 4. Grassroots members walking and rolling away; 5. Identity politics as the continuation of war by other means; 6. Innovation at the crossroads; 7. The CRPD's civilizing mission.