Stacey Milbern

Milbern was born at the U.S. Army Hospital in Seoul on May 19, 1987, with ullrich congenital muscular dystrophy (CMD). including as Community Outreach Director for the National Youth Leadership Network. She later was a founder of the North Carolina Youth Leadership Forum. Milbern authored a popular disability-rights blog on WordPress throughout the late 2000s, titled "Crip Chick" (later CripChick.com).{{cite web == San Francisco Bay Area ==

Milbern moved to the San Francisco Bay Area when she was 24, California ranks highly among the states for spending on in-home care benefits, and she was able to obtain Medicaid support for an in-home attendant, and hold a position in human resources at Wells Fargo, a financial banking company. She advised the Obama administration for two years. She earned a Master of Business Administration degree from Mills College in 2015. In early March 2020, as the COVID-19 pandemic spread to the Bay Area, Milbern and four friends constituting the Disability Justice Culture Club distributed homemade disease-prevention kits, including hand sanitizer, disinfectant, and respirators, to residents of Oakland homeless encampments. She raised concerns for the well-being of the community and its most vulnerable members. Milbern noted her DIY solution as an example of "crip—or crippled—wisdom". She warned that the pandemic's demands on health services threatened her community's access to dialysis and other life-saving treatments needed by some to survive. Her group also organized a mutual aid campaign, providing food and care support for disabled people in need. Milbern continued pandemic relief work despite her own growing health problems. ==Death and legacy==

. Towards the end of her life, she experienced additional health problems. Surgery to remove her fast-growing kidney cancer was postponed during the COVID-19 pandemic due to shelter-in-place orders. Milbern is depicted on a U.S. quarter released in 2025 as part of the final year of the American Women quarters collection. On October 25, 2025, Milbern was inducted into the hall of fame of Massey Hill Classical High School. == References ==