Interview with Stacy Milbern

Stacey Milbern lives in Fayetteville, North Carolina and is currently serving as Community Outreach Director for the National Youth Leadership Network. As Community Outreach Director, she gets to build power and community with other disabled youth. Stacey identifies as a powerchair-roaring, queer, disabled woman of color. Her experience living at the intersections of these communities greatly shapes the way she see the world. Some of Stacey’s past organizing experience includes: co-founding the Disabled Young People’s Collective, working to pass a bill that requires public schools to teach disability history, and co-hosting trainings around topics of youth power, people of color organizing, and disability justice. This interview focused on a curriculum (Reap What You Sow) that Stacey has developed on disability, her transition into independent living, the process that parents take in separating from their children with disabilities, how you can't teach disability advocacy without having hard conversations about race/power/oppression.