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Alice Wong was best known as the founder of the Disability Visibility Project.
The group highlighted disabled people and disability culture through storytelling projects, social media and other channels.
Wong also received acclaim for her 2022 memoir, Year of the Tiger and Activist's Life, edited several works on disability and wrote a column for Teen Vogue.
Disability justice organiser Yomi Sachiko-Young spoke about Wong in an interview earlier this year with NPR member station KQED.
Alice Wong was born in Indiana in 1974 to immigrant parents from Hong Kong.
She was diagnosed at birth with muscular dystrophy, a progressive neuromuscular disease.
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In an email to NPR, Washington National Opera Board of Trustees President Andy Farrow said the company, quote, has no plans to move out of the Kennedy Center and is proud to be part of America's cultural center.
The statement came hours after The Guardian published a story quoting Washington National Opera artistic director Francesca Zambello as saying her company may quit the Kennedy Center as a result of President Donald Trump's takeover.
Trump declared himself chair of the institution in February, firing and replacing its board and leadership.
Zambello told The Guardian her company is being forced to consider other options owing to tumbling ticket sales and audience protests.
When asked by NPR for a response to the Kennedy Center's rebuttal, Zambello only re-shared the board president's statement.
In an email to NPR, Washington National Opera Board of Trustees President Andy Farrow said the company, quote, "...has no plans to move out of the Kennedy Center and is proud to be part of America's cultural center."
The statement came hours after The Guardian published a story quoting Washington National Opera artistic director Francesca Zambello as saying her company may quit the Kennedy Center as a result of President Donald Trump's takeover.