May 23, 2020

Stacey Park Milbern was a profound disability activist who helped create the Disability Justice Movement. She passed away on May 19, 2020 on her 33rd birthday. She was instrumental in helping create North Carolina’s October "Disability History and Awareness Month" and advised Obama for 2 years on the President's Committee for People with Intellectual Disabilities and those are only some of her accomplishments.

[ID: a digital portrait depicting a Korean-American woman. She is sitting in a power wheelchair and has a trach. She is wearing a striped pink and purple shirt, glasses, jeans, and has short dark hair. Behind her is a ring of very large and vibrant flowers of different types, matching more in the upper corners. She has a friendly and joy filled face with a big smile.]