In Conversation with Dielle Lundberg

Dielle J. Lundberg, MPH (she/her and ze/hir) is a PhD student at the University of Washington School of Public Health and completing a Graduate Certificate through the University of Washington Disability Studies Program. She completed her MPH at Boston University School of Public Health and remains connected to the school as a research assistant in the Uncounted Lab where she studies unrecognized Covid-19 deaths. Ze is also a multi-media artist interested in the ways that art can foster connection, engagement, and health. Her personal and professional mission is to dismantle structural ableism in public health and healthcare and “crip” health research, practice, and education from disabled, neurodivergent, and mad perspectives. As a disabled person in public health research, ze views hir role as meeting public health and health care stakeholders where they are at and inviting everyone on a journey to divest from ableism, reduce harm, and make progress towards equity. Dielle is a white transfeminine person. She is disabled, mad, and neurodivergent. Her perspectives on ableism are informed by her experiences with physical disability (Long Covid and chronic pain), as a psychiatrized person (bipolar disorder and PTSD), and as an autistic person with ADHD (adult diagnosis ADHD and adult discovery autist). Ze currently lives in Seattle, Washington on the unceded lands of the Coast Salish peoples past and present including all tribes and bands within the Duwamish, Puyallup, Suquamish, Tulalip, and Muckleshoot nations. Her website with more information is diellelundberg.com.