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UW Public Lectures: An Evening with Alice Wong

January 9 @ 6:30 pm

This is another event in the ‘UW Public Lecture Series’. Alice Wong
will be remotely joining moderated converstation addressing topics
important to her work in raising the visibility of disabled people.

Alice Wong is a disabled activist, writer, media maker, and consultant.
She is the founder and director of the Disability Visibility Project, an
online community dedicated to creating, sharing, and amplifying disability
media and culture created in 2014 – in addition to many other projects that
she is a co-partner of.

She has been published in the New York Times, Vox, PEN America,
Catalyst, Syndicate Network, Uncanny Magazine, Curbed SF, Eater,
Bitch Media, Teen Vogue, Transom, Making Contact Radio, and Rooted in Rights.
Her activism and work has also been featured on many media and news outlets
including: CNN, Huffington Post, Wired, The Hill, The Guardian, Al Jazeera,
Teen Vogue, Rewire, Vice, Esquire, CNET, and Buzzfeed.