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Lydia X. Z. Brown

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Disability Rights & Algorithmic Fairness Associate
Georgetown Law, Institute for Tech Law & Policy
Country or state 
United States (Washington D.C (District of Columbia))
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Global
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Languages 
English
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Bio

Lydia X. Z. Brown (they/them) is a disability justice advocate, organizer, educator, attorney, strategist, and writer whose work has largely focused on violence against multiply-marginalized disabled people, especially institutionalization, incarceration, and policing. They have worked to advance transformative change through organizing in the streets, writing legislation, conducting anti-ableism workshops, testifying at regulatory and policy hearings, and disrupting institutional complacency everywhere from the academy to state agencies and the nonprofit-industrial complex. Currently, Lydia is co-leading the project on disability rights and algorithmic fairness at the Institute for Technology Law and Policy at Georgetown University Law Center, and supporting the Autistic Women and Nonbinary Network’s public policy advocacy. In collaboration with E. Ashkenazy and Morénike Giwa Onaiwu, Lydia is also co-editor and visionary behind All the Weight of Our Dreams, the first-ever anthology of writings and artwork by autistic people of color and otherwise negatively racialized autistic people, published by AWN. Lydia is Founder and Director of the Fund for Community Reparations for Autistic People of Color’s Interdependence, Survival, and Empowerment, which provides direct support, mutual aid, and community reparations to individual autistic people of color. Lydia is also a founding board member of the Alliance for Citizen-Directed Services.

Lydia was the 2018-2019 Justice Catalyst Fellow at the Bazelon Center for Mental Health Law, working on defending and advancing the educational civil rights of Maryland students with psychosocial, intellectual, and developmental disabilities facing various forms of disproportionate discipline, restraint and seclusion, and school pushout. They also recently completed a term as Chairperson of the Massachusetts Developmental Disabilities Council, serving in that role from 2015 to 2017 as the youngest appointee nationally to chair any state developmental disabilities council. They also designed and taught a course on critical disability theory, public policy, and intersectional social movements as a Visiting Lecturer at Tufts University’s Experimental College. Previously, Lydia served as TASH New England’s co-president and its stakeholder representative to the Massachusetts One Care Implementation Council overseeing health care for people who are dually eligible for Medicaid and Medicare. They were formerly staff at the Autistic Self Advocacy Network for several years, working on programs and policy matters. They have also been a Holley Law Fellow at the National LGBTQ Task Force, and a Patricia Morrissey Disability Policy Fellow at the Institute for Educational Leadership.

Current position (3)

Disability Rights & Algorithmic Fairness Associate

Georgetown Law, Institute for Tech Law & Policy

Public Policy Associate

Autistic Women & Nonbinary Network

Founder & Director

Autistic People of Color Fund

Degrees (2)
Juris Doctor
Northeastern University School of Law
2015 to 2018
Arabic
Georgetown University
2011 to 2015
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Books & Articles (6)

All the Weight of Our Dreams: On Living Racialized Autism
DragonBee Press,
2017
Bad types of sex ed and sexual violence prevention about developmentally disabled people
The neurodiversity movements needs its shoes off, and fists up.
They keep publishing these violent articles
Why we must #BoycottToSiri / An open letter to Judith Newman
Thinking about patterns of opposite extremes among autistic people

Expertise (13)

Social & Political
Leadership
Education
Health & Well-being
Disability Rights Disability Justice Neurodiversity Anti-Racism Queer Activism Transgender Activism Disability Law and Policy Diversity and Inclusion Culturally Responsive Pedagogy

Clients

Bellevue College, Autism Spectrum Navigators Program
Syracuse University, Disability Cultural Center
Person Centered Care Services of Staten Island
Congressional Hunger Center
Unitarian Universalist Ministers Association
JOIN for Justice
eorgetown University, National Center for Cultural Competence
Teach For America

Awards & certifications (21)

Humanity of Connection Award for Disability Community Leadership
AT&T
2019
Denise Carty-Bennia Memorial Bar Award
Northeastern University School of Law
2018
Finalist for Professor of the Year Award
Tufts University Community Union
2018
Paul G. Hearne Leadership Award
American Association of People with Disabilities
2018
Redefining A to Z: Breakthrough Leaders in the Asian Pacific American Community
NBC News Asian America
2018
We The Future - Youth Activism Icon
Amplifier Foundation
2018
Youth Advancing Awareness Award
The Help Group's Advance LA
2018
Irving K. Zola Emerging Scholar Award
Society for Disability Studies
2017
Jameson Crane III Disability & the Law Writing Competition, Second Prize
Thomas Jefferson School of Law
2017
Pro Bono Publico Award
National Association for Law Placement/Public Service Jobs Directory
2017
Asian American Lawyers Association of Massachusetts Scholarship Award
Asian American Lawyers Association of Massachusetts & Harry H. Dow Memorial Legal Assistance Fund
2016
Diana Viets Memorial Award for Youth Advocacy
National Council on Independent Living
2016
Grantee / Davis-Putter Scholar
Davis-Putter Scholarship Fund
2016
Mary Lou Maloney Award
Disability Policy Consortium of Massachusetts
2016
30 Top Thinkers Under 30 in the Social Sciences
Pacific Standard
2015
Lena Landegger Community Service Award
Georgetown University
2015
Mic 50: The Next Generation of Impactful Leaders, Cultural Influencers, and Breakthrough Innovators
Mic
2015
Provost Undergraduate Research Presentation Award
Georgetown University
2015
Empowering the Future Youth Activist Award
Washington Peace Center
2014
Champion of Change for Disability Rights
President Barack Obama, The White House
2013
Honorable Mention for Youth Advocate of the Year Award
Massachusetts Advocates for Children
2011
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