Melissa Marshall, the Executive Director of Advocacy Unlimited, is a life-long disability rights activist. She was the first Director of PAIMI (Protection and Advocacy for Individuals with Mental Illness) in Connecticut as well as the founding Executive Director of the Disabilities Network of Eastern Connecticut. Ms. Marshall is the Vice President of the of the Connecticut Legal Rights Project Board of Directors. She is a person with a disability who lives in West Hartford with her husband and two sons..