Alan Hejl
Accessibility Strategy Manager
General Motors
Alan Hejl (he/him/his) is the Accessibility Strategy Manager at General Motors, serving as a leader in a growing department working to improve vehicle accessibility for people with disabilities. He currently also volunteers as the Co-President of GM Able, the Employee Resource Group at GM supporting people with disabilities, caregivers, and allies.
Accessibility and removing barriers to intersectional inclusion is a personal passion of his, as he identifies with chronic nerve pain and has a partner who is paralyzed and a manual wheelchair user. Outside of work when he isn’t hanging out at his favorite local breweries or gardening, Alan serves with the Ferndale Accessibility & Inclusion Advisory Commission for the city of Ferndale, Michigan, Michigan Disability Rights Coalition (MDRC), and Detroit Disability Power.