Alice Wong, Founder of Disability Visibility Project, political activist and media maker

Alice Wong, Founder of Disability Visibility Project,
political activist and media maker

Alice Wong is a Bay Area activist, media maker, and consultant. She founded the Disability Visibility Project, an online community dedicated to creating, sharing and amplifying disability media and culture. Wong is also a co-partner in four projects: DisabledWriters.com with s.e. smith and Vilissa Thompson, a resource to help editors connect with disabled writers and journalists; #CripLit, a series of Twitter chats for disabled writers with novelist Nicola Griffith; #CripTheVote, a nonpartisan online movement encouraging the political participation of disabled people with co-partners Andrew Pulrang and Gregg Beratan; and Access Is Love with co-partners Mia Mingus and Sandy Ho, a campaign that aims to help build a world where accessibility is understood as an act of love instead of a burden or an afterthought.

Alice’s areas of interest are popular culture, media, politics, disability representation, Medicaid policies and programs, storytelling, social media, and activism. Her activism and work has been featured in the CNN original series United Shades of America (Season 3, Episode 4), WBUR, Wired, The Hill, Autostraddle, Werk It: The Podcast, WNYC, The Guardian, WAMU radio, Roll Call, WBUR radio, Al Jazeera, Teen Vogue, Bitch Media, Rewire, Vice, Esquire, CNET, and Buzzfeed.

For the latest news and updates, go to the In the News page and keep up with Alice Wong on Twitter: @SFdirewolf @DisVisibility Instagram: @disability_visibility and Email: DisabilityVisibilityProject@gmail.com
 
We have mad love and respect for Alice and you can learn more about her on our website at seismicsisters.com