Lydia X. Z. Brown is a disability justice advocate, organizer, educator, attorney, strategist, and writer whose work has largely focused on violence against multiply-marginalized disabled people, especially institutionalization, incarceration, and policing. They co-lead the project on disability rights and algorithmic fairness at Georgetown Law’s Institute for Technology Law and Policy, teach for Georgetown’s disability studies program, and support the Autistic Women and Nonbinary Network’s public policy advocacy. They also founded and direct the Fund for Community Reparations for Autistic People of Color's Interdependence, Survival, and Empowerment. Their work appears in numerous scholarly and community publications.