Marca Bristo (June 23, 1953 – September 8, 2019) was an American disability rights activist.

[2] She attended Beloit College and earned her nursing degree from Rush University in Chicago.

[2] Bristo was paralyzed from the chest down in a diving accident in 1977, when she was 23 years old.

[3] In 1983, she co-founded the American National Council on Independent Living (NCIL) with Max Starkloff and Charlie Carr.

[5] She was also the founding president and chief executive officer of Access Living of Metropolitan Chicago.