Alice Wong, a transformational leader for disability rights and justice, who founded the Disability Visibility project to magnify disabled culture, died Friday at a San Francisco hospital. She was 51.

The cause of death was an infection, said close friend Abby Yim. Ms. Wong’s death was shared by Sandy Ho, executive director of the Disability & Philanthropy Forum, who posted a finalmessage on her behalf.

In it, Ms. Wong, displaying her unapologetic and witty personality, told the hundreds of thousands who found community in her work that she was “honored” by their support and believed “disabled oracles like us will light the way to the future.”

“As a kid riddled with insecurity and internalized ableism, I could not see a path forward,” Ms. Wong wrote. “It was thanks to friendships and so

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