Darrell Lynn Jones has worked in the disability field since 1967. She most recently was project manager at Independent Living Research Utilization in Houston, TX where she coordinated national training and technical assistance programs for Centers for Independent Living, Statewide Independent Living Councils, and states receiving funding from the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services for Real Choice Systems Change initiatives. Previously she was training director at the National Council on Independent Living. Darrell was the founding executive director of both the Rochester (NY) Center for Independent Living and the Association of Independent Living Centers in New York.  Darrell is currently the director of the CIL-NET Technical Assistance and Training and the SILC-NET Technical Assistance and Training projecst at the CPD.

Darrell lives and works in the state of Virginia.