HURLEYVILLE, NY — Rebecca S. Salon, a native of Hurleyville, has been appointed by President Barack Obama to the President’s Committee for People with Intellectual Disabilities.

Currently a resident of Silver Spring, MD, Salon is project director at the National Center on Leadership for the Employment and Economic Advancement of People with Disabilities, established by the National Disability Institute. She is a program specialist at the D.C. Department on Disability Services. She has held both positions since 2013. She earlier held numerous posts at the Lt. Joseph P. Kennedy Institute from 1987 to 2007, including serving as director.

Salon started her career in the disabilities field in the mid-1970s, when she opened some of the first group homes for adults with intellectual disabilities in Sullivan County, NY, as a staff member of the Sullivan County ARC.