Lucy Trieshmann (they/she) is a queer, Disabled disability justice activist, writer, speaker, and lawyer dedicated to intersectional, community-led change. After becoming Disabled in their final year at the University of Virginia, they decided to pursue law to address the systemic issues facing disabled and other marginalized people.
As a Root-Tilden-Kern Scholar at the NYU School of Law, Lucy interned with the ACLU Human Rights and Disability Rights Programs, the Center for Constitutional Rights, and the National Center for Law and Economic Justice. They also launched the Breaking Point Project, an endeavor amplifying the stories of incarcerated people with disabilities to emphasize the urgency of prison abolition. Following their graduation in 2022, they returned to the ACLU Disability Rights Program, where their work focused on non-police alternatives for people experiencing mental and behavioral health crises.
Lucy then worked as a Litigation Associate at Eisenberg & Baum LLP, representing disabled individuals facing discrimination in a wide array of issue areas. They also serve as Board Co-Chair of the National Harm Reduction Coalition, focusing on the intersecting goals of the disability justice and harm reduction movements, and Treasurer of the National Disabled Legal Professionals Association. They are an activist, speaker, and educator on disability, queerness, abolition, and intersectionality, with their comments featured in Teen Vogue, The Washington Post, USA Today, Bloomberg, and more.