rac79@cornell.edu
Raymond Adam Cebula III, J.D., received his law degree from the Franklin Pierce Law Center (now the University of New Hampshire Law School) in 1982. He spent a total of 23 years working with legal services and protection and advocacy programs providing direct representation to disabled individuals having legal issues with the Social Security Administration. He became part of Cornell University's WISC team in 2000 and began providing technical assistance, training and advice to attorneys and legal advocates in the 16 states and territories associated with the WISC. In January of 2005, Ray was brought on staff at ILR's Yang Tan Institute on Employment and Disability where he now serves as the Program Director of ytiONLINE (Cornell's Work Incentive Practitioner credentialing program). While with YTI he has provided training and technical assistance to Youth Transition Demonstration projects across the country, served as Director of Training and technical Assistance for the New York Medicaid Infrastructure Grant and served as a team member for the Technical Assistance Team of the National Training Center of Virginia Commonwealth University providing technical assistance and training to SSA benefits planners in SSA Region 1 until September, 2020. Recent written materials include development of the new YOUTH-C course materials, "Mapping the Path to Work "published by AAIDD, Chapter 23, NOSSCR Social Security Practice Guide, 2015, "Interaction Among Unemployment Insurance, Welfare, Social Security Disability and SSI Benefits", Clearinghouse REVIEW, September-October, 2007. Along with teaching his credentialing program for Work Incentive Practitioners, he has also taught sessions on Social Security and Workers Compensation in ILRLR 4023 - Disability Employment Policy and co-teaches ILRLR4033 - Disability Law at ILR's undergraduate program.
