Hey everyone, you're listening to Code Switch from NPR.

I'm B.A. Parker.

And today we want to talk to you about Alice Wong.

She was a disability activist, an author who had a larger-than-life reputation.

She died on November 14th at the age of 51.

Here she is on WBUR's Here and Now in 2016.

You know, people with disabilities are seen as this kind of vulnerable, you know, oh, we can't bully them, we, you know, we can't protect them.

And I feel like there's also another aspect that, you know, people with disabilities can speak for themselves, can defend themselves.

We just need to kind of listen to them.

To get more into Alice's life and legacy, I'm going to bring on NPR correspondent Alyssa Nadwarni.

Hi, Alyssa.

Hello, I'm so excited to be here with you.

So, Alyssa, after Alice Wong died, I heard you have a really beautiful conversation about her that I heard on Here and Now.

When I listened to it, I thought, I just have to hear more.

Yeah, I think the original segment that aired was about five and a half minutes and there's only two questions.

That's okay.

Yeah, it was just beautiful.

Like, I talked with her really good friend who's also a disability and social justice organizer named Yomi Young.

And she told me about Alice's legacy and kind of, you know, all these accolades that she got.

She was a MacArthur Fellow.

That's like the Genius Grant.

She founded the Disability Visibility Project.

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