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As an activist, Henry Holden has worked behind the scene to make a difference; he was the founder of the Performers with Disabilities Committee (Screen Actors Guild) in the late 1970's, to encourage the entertainment and advertising industries to hire people with disabilities as performers. During the past decade, he has bombarded the media with hundreds of letters, attempting to achieve a life's goal: changing the public's attitude about people with disabilities. More recently, Henry founded DIME (Disability In Media Everywhere), striving to eliminate the negative portrayals in the media of people with disabilities. Seeking to encourage the networks and production companies to include persons with disabilities in their programming and advertisements, he has appeared on the Phil Donahue Show, the Today Show, Real People, Entertainment Tonight, and dozens of local news shows from coast to coast. In 1993 Henry had the pleasure of hosing the Disability Independence Day rally in New York City with John Hockenberry.
On July 9, 2002, as the Chairperson for Performers with Disabilities for the Screen Actors Guild, Henry addressed the Director's Guild.
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