An Interview with Lily Wong
by E. Wallens & S. Wolf Section I: Demographics Lily Wong is a Chinese-American woman has lived in the Greater Boston Area of Massachusetts all thirty-four-and-a-half years of her life -- largely wheelchair-bound for the last two. As a toddler, she was diagnosed with cerebral palsy, but she told us, “I benefited greatly from physical therapy to stay ambulatory all throughout my youth.” In more recent months and years, though, she has been less steady on her feet, so she opts for the wheelchair in most public spaces. Lily, an only child, told us she had a “happy childhood” and considers herself a “product of the Boston Public Schools” for all of her pre-college education. After graduating high school, she attended Harvard University where she completed a BA in Biochemical Sciences. At that time, she shifted gears to do a teaching program and then taught in a high school for ten years -- mostly science subjects like biology and chemistry but a...