Founder

Dielle Lundberg, MPH (she/her or ze/hir) is a public health data analyst, writer, and researcher based in Seattle, Washington. She is the founder and lead writer for Ableism & Healthcare Now.

Dielle's passion for researching and addressing structural ableism in public health and healthcare is rooted in her lived experiences navigating health systems as a physically disabled and psychiatrized person. She has experienced disbelief, coercion, and neglect in health care settings that stems from systemic issues of ableism. Living with Long Covid and chronic pain, she also understands deeply how health care can become a source of stress for disabled people that harms health.

Dielle is a white, queer, and transfeminine person. She is also disabled, mad, and neurodivergent and has written elsewhere about her background and positionality and her research praxis and theory of change.

She received training in public health research methods as an MPH student at Boston University School of Public Health and later as a PhD student at the University of Washington from 2022 to 2024. In an essay series at that time, she wrote about academic ableism and her decision to discontinue her studies despite knowing her scholarship and advocacy on structural ableism was critically needed

In July 2025, Dielle founded Ableism & Healthcare Now as an independent platform to continue the work that she was doing as a disabled person in public health research. She launched the project with the vision of involving other collaborators over time and designed the project to circumvent many of the structural barriers imposed on disabled scholars by academic research institutions.

More information about Dielle is available at: diellelundberg.com