Stacey Milbern

Stacey Park Milbern was a South Korean and American activist for disability justice, advocating for fair treatment of those with disability in the United States. She served on the North Carolina Commission for the Blind and the Statewide Independent Living Council, as well as the President's Committee for People with Intellectual Disabilities under U.S. president Barack Obama. She also helped establish Disability History and Awareness Month in North Carolina. In March 2020, she engaged in mutual aid to provide food and medical care to homeless and disabled people in the San Francisco Bay Area during the COVID-19 pandemic before dying from surgical complications related to kidney cancer in May of that year.

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