Alejandra Ospina

Image description: Alejandra is a light-skinned Latina woman with close cropped dark hair. In a close-up selfie, she wears a headset with a microphone, glasses with narrow black frames, and a short-sleeved, light blue shirt where the first part of a quote by Lydia X. Z. Brown is visible: YOU ARE NOT A BURDEN.

Alejandra Ospina is a first-generation native New Yorker and full-time wheelchair user whose family has roots in Colombia. She has been active for several years in various advocacy and performance projects online, locally and beyond, and also works as a media access provider, creating closed captions and audio descriptions. 

Alejandra is the Program Coordinator for Dark Room Ballet with Krishna Washburn, an educational program that prioritizes the needs of blind and visually impaired dance students at introductory and advanced levels.

Alejandra is the principal audiobook narrator for Disability Visibility: First-Person Stories from the Twenty-First Century, an anthology edited by Alice Wong and published by Penguin Random House in June 2020.

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