Deborah Kaplan

Deborah Kaplan (born January 17, 1950) is an American disability rights activist and attorney. She is a quadriplegic. From 1980 until 1985 she was an attorney for the Disability Rights Education and Defense Fund (DREDF). In 1997, she became the executive director of the World Institute on Disability.

She has also worked with the Center for Independent Living, the Disability Law Resource Center, and the Disabled Women's Support Group. She did her undergraduate study at UC Santa Cruz and obtained her J.D. degree from UC Berkeley.