Ellen Weber is the Vice President for Health Initiatives at the Legal Action Center (LAC). She helps lead LAC’s efforts to expand access to substance use treatment. Weber worked previously at the center from 1985-2002, during which time she conducted disability rights litigation, established the center’s office in Washington, D.C., and led the center’s national policy work. She led the field’s efforts to obtain protections for persons with substance use disorders under the Americans With Disabilities Act, participated in the first round of national healthcare reform legislation and advocated for a more balanced federal budget for the prevention and treatment of substance use disorders. Weber held an appointment as Professor of Law at the University of Maryland Carey School of Law. She established and directed the Drug Policy and Public Health Strategies Clinic, in which she worked on implementation of the Affordable Care Act and Parity Act in public and private insurance in Maryland, and adoption of harm reduction legislation to address the opioid epidemic. Weber started her career in 1980 as a trial attorney in the Civil Rights Division of the U.S. Justice Department. She graduated from Dickinson College and New York University School of Law.