My name is Dielle Lundberg.
I am a disabled, mad, and transfeminine writer, public health data analyst, and independent researcher. I am working to challenge structural ableism in public health and healthcare through essays, peer-reviewed research collaborations, and independent research projects. As a day job, I provide research services.
Before anything else, I am a human with a rich and messy lived experience, trying to make sense out of my existence. As an alcoholic in recovery and a survivor of psychiatric harm and gender-based sexual violence, I am deeply passionate about noncarceral approaches to harm prevention and resolution. I also write openly about stigmatized topics, from sex work and psychiatric violence to addiction and sexuality, and give space for the human complexity in everyone, even those who have caused significant harm. Similarly, as a multi-media artist and novelist practicing under my pen name, Lyra McMahon, I explore the funny, often twisted, uncomfortable, and dark truths about humanity and what it takes to survive, especially as a marginalized person.
Dielle, a white transfeminine person
Dielle standing with her walking sticks
I received an MPH from Boston University School of Public Health in 2019 and was a PhD student at the University of Washington School of Public Health from 2022 to 2024. At that time, I discontinued my studies and determined that pursuing independent research was the most sustainable way for me as a disabled person to continue advancing my scholarship on structural ableism. As of 2025, I publish research in peer-reviewed journals and as the founder and lead writer for Ableism & Healthcare Now, an independent research and analysis project about how structural ableism shapes healthcare and public health. View my research portfolio to read about my research praxis and theory of change, or read about how my background and positionality inform my work.
Links:
Email: contact@diellelundberg.com
Other Work:
I work to contribute to social justice movements, political organizing, and efforts toward systemic change in and outside of the United States via redistribution through the Lyra McMahon Social Justice & Political Solidarity Fund.
I am also a co-founder and board member for Make Fashion Clean (MFC Tie-Dye), a non-profit initiative that has worked for more than a decade to reduce global fashion pollution through an upcycling partnership with artisans affected by disability/ableism at the MFI Foundation in Ghana. MFC is working toward a vision of long-term project sustainability, locally governed and operated by the MFI Foundation, with the potential dissolution of MFC by the end of 2027. I have written elsewhere about my role in founding this upcycling partnership.
Notice:
All content I share on my website, in essays and other writings, and on my social media and other platforms represents my personal expression and does not reflect the views of any institutions, funders, organizations, or other projects, entities, or individuals I am affiliated with or connected to — presently, in the past, or in the future. As a human, I value constructive feedback and continuing to learn and unlearn, and I also recognize that differences in opinion and practice are often healthy. My processes for receiving and providing feedback are guided by my strongly held non-carceral values, as described elsewhere. I've described the values that underlie my artistic practice and overall work in position statements about money and art, reputation and visibility, sharing work-in-progress, fear and failure, and other topics.
