Brooke Ellison, Prominent Disability Rights Advocate, Is Dead at 45

February 13, 2024

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(New York Times) – Brooke Ellison, who after being paralyzed from the neck down by a childhood car accident went on to graduate from Harvard and became a professor and a devoted disability rights advocate, died on Sunday in Stony Brook, N.Y., on Long Island. She was 45. Her death, in a hospital, was caused by complications of quadriplegia, her mother, Jean Ellison, said. (Read More)