Meier Galblum Haigh

Founder and Executive Director | They/Them

Meier Galblum Haigh is the founding Executive Director of the Disability Culture Lab (DCL). They are a trans-masc, nonbinary disabled person with nearly 20 years of experience at the intersection of movement building, media, and communications. 

Prior to DCL, Meier served as a Senior Advisor at New Disabled South and Chief of Communications at Popular Democracy. Meier also co-founded not-for-profit social justice PR firm Megaphone Strategies with Van Jones and his non-profit Dream Corps, which served over 80 progressive candidates, movements, and social impact organizations. In five years, the team Meier built and co-ran elected former Interior Secretary Deb Haaland to Congress, launched She the People, supported movements like the Women’s March and #BlackLivesMatter, and helped pass legislation to protect workers across numerous states with the Working Families Party — from securing paid sick days to universal pre-k and paid leave to increasing the minimum wage. 

Meier is an alum of FitzGibbon Media, 350.org, the Obama for America Campaign, and numerous Democratic Party campaigns at the state and local level. Born and raised in Fairbanks, Alaska, they have proud rural roots but now live in Washington D.C. with their spouse, elementary schooler, and pup.