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Marilyn E. Saviola was a disability rights activist and advocate. A childhood polio survivor her advocacy work spans over 6 decades. She helped create many new programs including the ICS Women's Health Access Program "which helps women with disabilities get the preventive, gender specific health services they need, such as breast and cervical cancer screenings. She was executive director of the advocacy group Center for the Independence of the Disabled in New York from 1983 to 1999.  "battles have included access to voting sites" and "helping people hire full-time personal assistants who enable them to live on their own" " She was also an active member of the Disabled in Action Singers She was inducted into the NYS Disability Rights Hall of Fame in 2018