Gwendolyn Hill
Communications Associate | She/Her
Gwendolyn Hill is a queer, multiply-disabled Chinese fem living with Long COVID who currently resides in occupied Tovaangar (Los Angeles Basin).
With over seven years of experience in transformative multimedia creation, grassroots community organizing, and research, she has dedicated herself to disability justice praxis. As a lifelong writer, artist, and musician, she believes that communication is an ever-evolving art form where there's always something new to learn.From 2008 to 2020 she was the publisher and co-founder of The Learned Fangirl, a frequently-cited cultural studies and pop culture publication.
Gwendolyn holds a Bachelor's of Science in Psychobiology from the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA). Dedicated to centering marginalized communities, she worked in two different psychological research labs at UCLA on projects surrounding racial discrimination, psychosocial effects of the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic, intersectionality, and storytelling as an educational tool to promote Asian American, Native Hawaiian, Pacific Islander (AANHPI) and Latine/x college students’ advocacy against anti-Black racism. Her research on postpartum depression and anxiety and access to mental health care at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center was recently published in the Archives of Women's Mental Health in May 2025.
During her time at UCLA, Gwendolyn was a leader in the Disabled Student Union (DSU) where she revolutionized COVID-19 resource access on campus, fought for hybrid education, and created the DSU's first annual graduation. Gwendolyn was also a copy editor and writer for UCLA's queer and feminist newsmagazines, OutWrite and FEM, where she deepened her commitment to uplifting underrepresented and historically marginalized people’s stories. She has received numerous awards and recognitions as a result of her advocacy, including the Rae Lee Siporin LGBTQ Leadership Award.
Gwendolyn is also a workshop facilitator and presenter on disability justice, public health, and community care for numerous organizations and universities. Currently, she is pursuing an Associate’s degree in Chinese at Los Angeles City College in hopes of connecting with her cultural roots and supporting language accessibility.
