Alice Wong was a writer, editor and disability rights activist.[1] She was born on March 27, 1974 in Indianapolis, Indiana, USA.[1] she died of an infection on November 14, 2025 in San Francisco, California, aged 51.[1] She founded the Disability Visibility Project in 2014 in collaboration with StoryCorps, which collects oral histories of people with disabilities; by 2018 he had collected around 140 stories.[1] In 2013, she was appointed by President Obama as a member of the National Council on Disability, where she served until 2015.[1] In 2022, she published a memoir, Year of the Tiger: The Life of an Activist, and edited collections such as Disability Visibility (2020) and Disability Intimacy (2024).[1] She was awarded a MacArthur Fellow in 2024.[1] She worked as a consultant in the organization Asians and Pacific Islanders with Disabilities of California.[1]