A young white person with short brown hair and black framed glasses is smiling directly at the camera. They are wearing a gray turtleneck sweater with three wooden-toned buttons down the front. They are against a backdrop of tall, black bookshelves tightly packed with books of different colors and sizes.

Moira Armstrong

Student
Rutgers University
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Biography

Presenting Student-led Activism on Campuses

Moira Armstrong is a PhD student in American studies at Rutgers University - Newark with research interests in disability studies, especially the COVID-19 pandemic; the history of gender and sexuality, particularly related to aromanticism; and the public and digital humanities. They do advocacy work related to disability, accessibility, and COVID-19 as part of the National Council on Public History’s Accessibility and Disability working group, the Oral History Association’s Diversity committee, and the Newark chapter and disability justice committee of Rutgers AAUP-AFT, and are an organizer with the New Jersey Mask Bloc, distributing respirators, COVID-19 tests, and air purifiers.

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