Alice Wong
Disability rights activist and writer
Alice Wong was an American disability rights activist and writer who founded the Disability Visibility Project and edited the anthology Disability Visibility.
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American Born 1974 in Indianapolis, United States Died 2025
About Alice Wong
Alice Wong (1974 to 2025) was based in San Francisco, California. She worked as an activist, writer, media maker and consultant. She founded the Disability Visibility Project, an online community about disability media and culture, and the project was also an oral history effort with StoryCorps. She also coproduced the Disability Visibility podcast. President Barack Obama appointed Wong to the National Council on Disability in 2013. In 2024 she was named a MacArthur Fellow. She edited the anthology Disability Visibility, which was published in 2020.