Jessica King, Founder of WDDA

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Neurodivergent with chronic illnesses, Jessica (she/they) founded White Dove Disability Advocacy with the aspiration to create a community-driven organization that promotes equity in disability and accessibility through creative, educational, and innovative projects. As the founder and executive director, she prioritizes the everyday goal to learn, grow, challenge, and be a better activist.

Connecting her disabled experiences to interdisciplinary disability activism, she presents at conferences, volunteers in nonprofits, and contributes to community projects. Her past roles include College Introduction Coordinator at High Hopes Counseling Foundation, Disability Pride Project Lead Coordinator at Words for the World, and Submission and Accessibility Coordinator for the DREAM-U Zine.

Alongside leading WDDA, Jessica is also an entrepreneur starting two small businesses. Her sole proprietorships, Neuro-Sunflower Poet/ry and Disabled Tutor Consults, will encourage accessibility strategies and disabled representation in higher education and creative writing.

A first-generation and low-income student, Jessica is finishing her dual-major/dual-minor education in creative writing, comparative world literature, health humanities, and human development at California State University, Long Beach, where she'd begun her career as a disability activist.

She welcomes everybody and every body to participate in WDDA to forward its mission of disability empowerment.