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Liz Jackson
Non-academic scholar of disability design
Liz Jackson is a prominent figure as a Founding Member of The Disabled List, a disability-led critical design collective, and a curator at Critical Axis, focusing on disability representation in media.
With a background in Telecommunications from Ohio University, Liz has held roles at institutions like SVA Design for Social Innovation, Martha Stewart Living Omnimedia, and The Ellen DeGeneres Show.
Her work centers around advocating for structural changes in design, analyzing power dynamics in disability inclusion advocacy, and critiquing the media's approach to inclusive design.
Liz Jackson's writing sheds light on the lack of evidence supporting inclusive design claims and the extraction of disabled people in disability-centered methodologies.
She challenges traditional narratives and brings accountability to previously unquestioned spaces in the design and disability advocacy realms.