San Francisco disability justice advocate Alice Wong, who died Nov. 14 at age 51, was a key figure linking the Bay Area’s influential ’60s disability rights movement to the current generation of activists, according to her peers.

A longtime friend of Wong’s, Victor Pineda, executive director at the Center for Independent Living in Berkeley, was her contemporary in what he describes as the second generation of the disability rights movement. Wong was a mentee of pioneering independent living advocate Judy Heumann, who was an early leader at Pineda’s organization, established in 1972 as the first independent living center in the country, organized and operated by persons with disabilities.

Pineda said Wong, who often employed new technology in her work, acted as a bridge connecting the les

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