Pronouns: She/Her
Liz is the founding Member of The Disabled List, an advocacy collective that engages with disability as a critical design practice. At The Disabled List, we examine how day-to-day practices of disability are both designerly and exploited by professional design culture. Liz is a curator at Critical Axis, a community-driven project that collects and analyzes disability representation in media. As a perpetual outsider, they have consulted on disability strategy while maintaining a critical distance from such behemoths as Twitter, The New York Times, Google, Volkswagen, Squarespace, the National Academy of Sciences, failed political campaigns, and more.
Liz is currently focused on analyzing power differentials that are embedded in corporate disability initiatives: primarily through how brand partnerships with large-scale disability charities serve to undermine and neutralize the work of disabled employees and independent activists. Through this process, Liz works to shift the focus from those who wield power to those who can be entrusted to harness it.
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Read more about Liz’s 2022 Keynote talk: “Navigating Institutional Barriers with #a12y“