LITTLE LOBBYSITS 9th BIRTHDAY!
Nine years ago, two moms sat down at a kitchen table late at night and asked a simple question: What if people could just see our kids?
Elena Hung and Michelle Morrison — parents of Xiomara and Timmy — were watching lawmakers debate repealing the Affordable Care Act and slashing Medicaid. Their disabled kids, and millions like them, were nowhere in the conversation. So they decided to put them front and center.
In just one week, they collected over a hundred stories from families like theirs across the country. Then they got on a train to Capitol Hill — kids, ventilators, wheelchairs, feeding tubes, oxygen tanks, and all — and hand-delivered those stories to individual lawmakers. Lawmakers took notice. The press called them the "little lobbyists," and the name stuck.
That was 2017. Today, Little Lobbyists is the only national family-led organization advocating for kids with every type of disability — mobility, sensory, mental health, intellectual and developmental disabilities, and complex medical needs.
We've grown from a kitchen table to a nationwide movement, with families in every state showing up to make sure our medically complex and disabled children are seen, heard, and protected.
In 2025, we mobilized again as Congress moved to cut over $800 billion from Medicaid — the lifeline that keeps medically complex kids at home with their families, in school, and in their communities. Our families went back to Capitol Hill with our kids leading the way, and lawmakers heard us coming from the other end of the hall.
Help us celebrate 9 years of Little Lobbyists — and fight for 9 more! Your gift supports:
- Travel costs so families can show up to advocacy events and tell their stories in person
- Community programs, trainings, and local events that connect isolated families across the country
- Storytelling and media work that center the stories and voices of medically complex and disabled children and their families
This birthday, we're asking you to please help us keep going.
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