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Anna Hamilton | Media, Pop Culture, Books, Film, Television, Art, Music, Politics, Disability Culture, Disability Rights, Criticism, Feminism, LGBQT, Disability, Relationships, Beauty | Anna Hamilton (they/them) is a writer and comedian living in the San Francisco Bay Area. They were a founding columnist at FWD/Feminists With Disabilities, which ran from from 2009 to 2011. Their work has appeared in Bitch Magazine, Talk Poverty, Rooted in Rights, Teen Vogue, the Daily Dot, Shondaland, the Disability Visibility Project, Yes! Magazine, and Tastefully Rude, among many other places on the internet. |
Tracy Stine | Media, Pop Culture, Film, Television, Disability Culture, Accessibility, Disability Rights, Criticism, Education, Americans with Disabilities Act, Food, Disability, Service Animals, Technology, Travel, Lifestyle | Deafblind mom of two grown kids. Freelance writer since 2015. Had own website and blog from 2013 - 2018. Works as an online American Sign Language (ASL) teacher & freelance writer. Facebook Moderator for 3 different ASL and Deaf groups. Sarcastic humor, independent, loves educating others about Deafness, Low Vision, and Deafblindness. |
Tyrese Alleyne-Davis | Media, Sports | My name is Tyrese Alleyne-Davis, and I am an independent sports journalist from Brooklyn, New York, living with cerebral palsy. I graduated with a bachelor’s degree in Creative Writing from New York University in 2023. To pursue my passion for storytelling and sports, I created a blog called Game on Wheels. My blog highlights amateur, high school, collegiate, and adaptive sports across the five boroughs of New York City |
Disabled Entreprenur UK | Media, Sciences, Medicine, Politics, Ethics, Philosophy, Disability Culture, Accessibility, Disability Rights, Criticism, Education, Americans with Disabilities Act, Food, Feminism, Race, Religion, LGBQT, Disability, Relationships, Service Animals, Technology, Lifestyle | I am a disabled entrepreneur and specialize in content creation, startups, and empowering people. |
Krystal Vasquez | Sciences, Accessibility, Education, LGBQT, Disability | I am a disabled science policy journalist. I currently write about diversity in STEM, STEM education, and environmental policy. I've also written about new scientific research, particularly research that's relevant to the environmental sciences. |
Jodi Hausen | Sciences, Medicine, Law, Books, Theatre, Fiction, Art, Music, Disability Culture, Accessibility, Disability Rights, History, Americans with Disabilities Act, Food, Disability, Service Animals, Lifestyle | An award-winning journalist with an awesomely ADDled brain and decades of writing and media experience, I nearly flunked college due to its rigorous writing requirement (and undiagnosed ADHD). So, I'm infinitely grateful to the professors and, later, editors who tortured me with the high standards that molded me into the writer I am today. Being diagnosed with attention deficit hyperactivity disorder late in life was a defining moment that fundamentally improved how I live in the world of neurotypical people. That and more than a decade volunteering with several disability nonprofits has led me to focus my work on telling the stories of people who are underrepresented in media and are therefore not well understood. My work has appeared in national and regional magazines and daily newspapers including the Christian Science Monitor, Narratively, Montana Quarterly, Mountain Outlaw, Mushing, Mainebiz, Cattle Business Weekly, Fine Art Connoisseur, Outside Bozeman, Bozeman Daily Chronicle and the Portland Press Herald/Maine Sunday Telegram. I've also produced feature pieces for Maine Public Radio's Maine Things Considered and have been interviewed about the importance of local media on KGVM radio. Copywriting, editing and proofreading clients include Intuit, eHow, The Rhodes Trust, Bozeman Health, HuffPost and The World Bank among others. Known on the airwaves as JoDJ, I play an eclectic mix of music on KGLT radio and am a recovering triathlete living in the Rocky Mountains of Montana. I love all things yummy and cuddly and am open to considering all points of view. After all, communication leads to understanding. And understanding each other is the key to compassion and peace. |
Gia Jacks | Film, Disability Culture, Accessibility, Food, Feminism, LGBQT, Disability | Creative individual with a background in writing, film studies and sociology. Personal experience with rare conditions, chronic pain and the effects limited mobility has on the emotional and psychological well-being of an individual. |
Kiara Kalmey | Media, Pop Culture, Books, Film, Television, Theatre, Fiction, Disability Culture, Accessibility, Disability Rights, History, Feminism, Religion, Disability | Kiara Kalmey has been writing as long as she can remember, and she doesn't plan on stopping now. Kiara is a deaf/HOH hearing aid user with EVA (Enlarged Vestibular Aqueduct syndrome). She also has ADHD (Attention Deficity Hyperactivity Disorder), OCD (Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder), BPD (Borderline Personality Disorder), and treatment-resistant clinical depression. Kiara is passionate about disability rights and fighting ableism, and she's particularly interested in exploring and improving disabled representation in books, TV, film, theatre, and video games. Kiara is also interested in the intersection where disability and religion collide. Her favorite genre to read and write is fantasy, and she's a big fan of world mythologies and folktales. Kiara holds an Associate's Degree in Liberal Arts and is in the process of obtaining a Bachelor's in English with a minor in Disability Studies. |
Kristen McConville | Poetry, Disability Culture, Accessibility, Disability Rights, History, Criticism, LGBQT, Disability, Sexuality, Beauty | I am a 22-year-old senior in college and I am based in Virginia. I am neurodivergent and I have fibromyalgia. As well as this, I also have asthma, food allergies, and mental health conditions. I am an aspiring editor who is interested in accessibility, diversity, and inclusion. I have been published online in the literary magazine, Disabled Tales. |
Stephanie Suesan Smith, Ph.D. | Sciences, Books, Disability Rights, Food, LGBQT, Disability, Relationships | I have been writing for print since 1991 and for the web since 2010. I have been a master gardener since 2001, with advanced training in growing vegetables, tree care, and entomology. I have written extensively on gardening, especially on growing fruits and vegetables. I also write on dogs, psychology, and other subjects. I have a Ph.D. in psychology. |