The article was originally published on https://sfist.com/2025/11/16/sf-based-disability-rights-icon-alice-wong-dies-at-age-51/SF-based disability justice advocate and MacArthur "Genius" Award-winner Alice Wong died Friday at 51. Wong founded the Disability Visibility Project, served on the Obama-era National Council on Disability, and wrote the best-selling memoir, Year of the Tiger: An Activist’s Life. As the Chronicle reports, Alice Wong, a prolific writer, advocate, and beacon of light in the social justice world, died Friday of an infection at UCSF hospital. Wong was born with muscular dystrophy and used a powered wheelchair and breathing device. When Wong was born, doctors said she likely wouldn’t live beyond the age of 18, which she said limited her early worldview in ways that ulti

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