Family and Disability Activism
Chapter contributors
The activists, parents, scholars, and self-advocates who wrote Family and Disability Activism. Follow their work, read what they’ve published since, and find out what they’re doing now.
Contributor profiles
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Bridget Liang
they/them
Chapter 4 Empathy Deficits among Neurotypicals
Currently looking for employment.
Bridget Liang is a mixed race, queer, transfeminine, AuDHD, disabled, fat fangirl. They came into their queerness in Hamilton Ontario and co-founded RADAR Youth Group at the LGBTQ Wellness Centre (the Well), the first queer group in a high school in Hamilton, and were instrumental in the passing of an equity policy in the HWDSB. Over the years, they've worked in social services, community research, and given consultations, talks, and workshops on a variety of issues related to DEI including queer, trans, and disability inclusion. They're a PhD candidate in the Gender, Feminist, and Women's Studies Program at York University, a community researcher, workshop and group facilitator, performance artist, and fiction writer.
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Lisette E. Torres
she/her/ella
Chapter 2 Learnings from My Mother’s Couch Corner: Becoming a Latina Disability Activist
Lisette E. Torres is a trained scientist and disabled scholar who is a Senior Researcher at TERC, a math and science education non-profit. Her research is focused on the intersection of race and disability in science and higher education. Dr. Torres is a co-founder of Sines of Disability and serves as a member of the AAAS Multidisciplinary Working Group on Disability Inclusion and Anti-Ableism in STEMM. She has a doctorate with a Certificate in Social Justice from the School of Education at Iowa State University, a M.S. in Zoology with a Certificate in Ecology from Miami University, and a B.A. in Earth and Environmental Science and Religion Studies (double-major) from Lehigh University.
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Grace Tsao
she/her
Chapter 1 Familial Relationships in Asian American Disability Advocacy and Activism
Grace Tsao spent her career in higher education, non-profit, and state government working in different roles including teaching, research, and grant writing. She has served on numerous boards and councils. She has a B.S. in News-Editorial Journalism from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, an M.S. in Cultural Foundations of Education with a concentration in Multicultural Education from the University of Wisconsin at Milwaukee, and an M.A. in Sociology from Loyola University Chicago focusing on race, gender, and disability. Grace has muscular dystrophy and uses a power wheelchair.
Also in this volume
Profiles are added as contributors send them in.
- Diane Compton
Chapter 9 How to Do Limitless Lifelong Self-Determination
- Erin Compton
Chapter 9 How to Do Limitless Lifelong Self-Determination
- Jaclyn Ellis
Chapter 3 Tàcharan: An “Autie”-Ethnographic Examination of the Biopolitics of Changelings and Cyborgs
- Laura LeBrun Hatcher
Chapter 8 Survive and Thrive: How Little Lobbyists Empowers Families to Fight for Disability Justice
- Elena Hung
Chapter 8 Survive and Thrive: How Little Lobbyists Empowers Families to Fight for Disability Justice
- Jenelle Rouse
Chapter 5 Black Deaf Ordinary Who Deliberately Signs
- Cheryl Najarian Souza
Chapter 6 Intersections of Deafness, Blindness, Deafblindness, and Gender: The Deaf Community, Blindness, and Deafblind Activism in Families
- Jeneva Stone
Chapter 8 Survive and Thrive: How Little Lobbyists Empowers Families to Fight for Disability Justice
- Roger A. Stone
Chapter 8 Survive and Thrive: How Little Lobbyists Empowers Families to Fight for Disability Justice
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