Jackiekoerner

San Francisco State University

Jackiekoerner is a Visiting Scholar at San Francisco State University for 2016-17, working with the Paul K. Longmore Institute on Disability to improve Wikipedia’s coverage of disability-related topics.

Having completed her dissertation on ableism and the medical model of disability at the Saint Louis University School of Education, Jackiekoerner now edits Wikipedia to put the knowledge she’s gained to use, contributing to an open educational resource available to a large and diverse community of learners.

Highlights: 504 Sit-in, disability in the United States, Superfest International Disability Film Festival.

Read Jackie’s reflection of her VS experience here, and blog posts about her work’s impact here and here.