Alice Wong

Alice Wong was an American disability rights activist and writer based in San Francisco, California. Dedicated to amplifying the voices and experiences of the disabled community, her career focused on challenging systemic ableism through storytelling, advocacy, and community organizing. A 2024 MacArthur Fellow and 2013 Obama appointee to the National Council on Disability, Wong founded the Disability Visibility Project, an oral history project with StoryCorps. She authored a memoir, Year of the Tiger: An Activist's Life (2022), and edited several collected works on disability, including Disability Visibility: First-Person Stories from the Twenty-First Century (2020) and Disability Intimacy: Essays on Love, Care, and Desire (2024). During the Gaza genocide, she co-founded the "Crips for eSims for Gaza" project which has raised millions of dollars to support internet and phone connectivity for Palestinians in Gaza.