Zoe Witt (she/they) is a freelance writer and creative based in Western Washington. Their work has been published in The LA Times, Teen Vogue, Jezebel, Glamour, and SELF.
Zoe is a lead organizer with Mutual Aid Diabetes: a community-run volunteer group that connects diabetics with resources to help them obtain life sustaining insulin, medication, and supplies.
In addition to overseeing Media & Communications for MAD, Zoe leads a variety of initiatives. They created MAD's supply sharing team, designed the State of Diabetes in America survey, and assembled an all diabetic research team to analyze MAD's research results.
Zoe has been disabled and chronically ill for over twenty years, after being diagnosed with insulin-dependent diabetes as a child. They've had to ration insulin, supplies, and health care numerous times, including while uninsured in 2018. Zoe is currently writing a screenplay based on this experience.
Though you will often find them working on or writing about troublesome topics, Zoe is also immensely interested in food, tattoos, fashion, design, film, and astrology.