Melissa Shang

Melissa is a Chinese-American woman with black hair tied in a ponytail. She is wearing a denim blue dress and sitting in a power wheelchair. She is smiling. In her background is a white wall.

Melissa, a student at Harvard, is a semi-finalist for the 2023 Heumann-Armstrong Award.

More about Melissa:

Melissa Shang is a junior at Harvard University. She was born with Charcot-Marie-Tooth disease, a form of muscular dystrophy, which means that she uses a power wheelchair and is passionate about disability rights and inclusion. Some of her proudest activism work has included co-authoring the middle-grade novel Mia Lee is Wheeling Through Middle School, writing for outlets like the New York Times and Teen Vogue, and advocating with disability rights groups nationwide.

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