About the Author

Alice Wong is a disabled activist, media maker, and research consultant based in San Francisco, California. She is the author of a bestselling memoir, Year of the Tiger; the founder and director of the Disability Visibility Project-an online community dedicated to creating, sharing, and amplifying disability media and culture; and the editor of the anthology Disability Visibility- First-Person Stories from the Twenty-First Century and Disability Visibility- 17 First-Person Stories for Today (Adapted for Young Adults). Alice is also the host and coproducer of the Disability Visibility podcast and copartner in a number of collaborations such as #CripTheVote and Access Is Love. From 2013 to 2015, Alice served as a member of the National Council on Disability, an appointment by President Barack Obama. Alice is a 2024 Macarthur Fellow.