ELSA SJUNNESON
Elsa Sjunneson is a Deafblind disability rights activist whose work has been praised as “eloquence and activism in lockstep.” Her work has been published in CNN Opinion and the Boston Globe. Elsa has presented at Microsoft, Google, Slack, the Federal Reserve Board, General Assembly Seattle, the Henry Art Gallery, and the University of Chicago, among others, and collaborated with New Jersey 11th for Change and the New York Disability Pride Parade. She holds a master’s degree in women’s history from Sarah Lawrence College and served as an adjunct professor in the Department of Humanities at the New Jersey Institute of Technology. A speculative fiction writer who has taught workshops with Clarion West as well as Writing the Other, she’s a two-time Hugo Award winner and nine-time finalist. Her latest book, Being Seen, won the Washington State Book Award for Biography & Memoir and is now available in paperback. Elsa lives in Seattle and was recently named one of the city’s most influential people by Seattle Magazine.
