Courtney Felle
2025 Speaker
MA/PhD Student, Ohio State University
Former YARR Program Manager at Everylife Foundation for Rare Diseases
P450 Oxidoreductase (POR) Deficiency
Courtney Felle (they/them) is an MA/PhD student at the Ohio State University, housed between Writing, Rhetoric, and Literacy and interdisciplinary Disability Studies. Courtney is interested in “diagnosis” as a social construction and narrative tool, especially where it overlaps with concepts of crip time, trauma studies, critical intersex studies, and wider forms of oppression and catastrophe.
Before starting at Ohio State, Courtney led the Young Adult Rare Representatives (YARR) through the EveryLife Foundation, a nonprofit program for young adults with rare disabilities to find policy, advocacy, and public speaking opportunities. Courtney was also a 2024 interACT: Advocates for Intersex Youth Cohort Member and a 2020-21 American Association of People with Disabilities intern. They are passionate about antizionist, dyke, and disability justice organizing. You can find their previous writing in SICK Magazine, Monstering Magazine, Teen Vogue, and other publications.
