She also worked as the director of programs at the Center of Independent Living.
In 2014, she was asked to join the President’s Committee for People With Intellectual Disabilities under President Barack Obama, serving as an adviser. Milbern, who had muscular dystrophy, continued her activism into adulthood. The framework is “dedicated to ensuring the perspectives of traditionally marginalized groups within the disabled community weren’t left out of the fight for disability rights.” And in 2005, she coined disability justice with other activists.
Milbern began advocating for disability rights at 16, according to Google. She was born in Seoul, South Korea, in 1987, and grew up in North Carolina in a military family.
The Korean American activist was an instrumental force in the disability justice movement. Google honored queer disability rights activist Stacey Milbern in a Doodle on what would have been her 35th birthday on Thursday as part of its recognition of Asian Pacific American Heritage Month.
