Ly Xīnzhèn M. Zhǎngsūn Brown
autistic disability rights activist
Ly Xīnzhèn M. Zhǎngsūn Brown (formerly Lydia X. Z. Brown, born 1993) is an American autistic disability-rights activist, writer, attorney, and public speaker who was honored by the White House in 2013. They are the chairperson of the American Bar Association Civil Rights & Social Justice Disability Rights Committee. They are also policy counsel for privacy and data at the Center for Democracy & Technology, and director of policy, advocacy, and external affairs at the Autistic Women & Nonbinary Network. In 2022, they unsuccessfully ran for the Maryland House of Delegates in District 7A, losing to state delegate Kathy Szeliga and delegate-elect Ryan Nawrocki. As a student at Georgetown University, Brown served as the first undersecretary of disability affairs for the Georgetown University Student Association.
Student activism
As an undergraduate student at Georgetown University from 2011 to 2015, Brown was a student organizer and advocate for other disabled students on campus. Brown served as the first undersecretary of disability affairs for the Georgetown University Student Association and was on the planning committee for the first university-recognized Disability Cultural Month in October 2012. They wrote and disseminated a citywide guide to resources for disabled students, surveyed student-government candidates on disability issues, organized a Twitter chat for disabled Georgetown students, and hosted and organized a lecture and performance series on disability justice that featured talks with disability activists, scholars, and cultural workers, including Karen Nakamura, Margaret Price, Leroy F. Moore Jr., Kassiane Asasumasu, Stephanie Kerschbaum, and Shain M. Neumeier.
In the fall of 2012, Brown designed a proposal for and organized a planning committee of over 20 university community members to advocate for the creation of a disability cultural center on campus. The planning committee's recommendations, in combination with a 2014 #BeingDisabledAtGeorgetown (shortened version: #BDGU) online campaign, contributed to the Disability Studies Minor Working Group's establishment of a disability studies course cluster in the fall of 2015 and Georgetown University's subsequent approval of the creation of a disability studies minor in 2017.
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