Meier Galblum Haigh

Executive Director, Disability Culture Lab and Disability Culture Lab Action

Meier Galblum Haigh is the founding Executive Director of the Disability Culture Lab. They are a nonbinary disabled human with over 15 years of experience at the intersection of movement building, media, and communications. They specialize in big narrative change and vision-first communications.

Meier co-founded not-for-profit social justice PR firm Megaphone Strategies with Van Jones’ Dream Corps, which served over 80 progressive candidates, movements, and social impact organizations. In five years, the team Meier built and co-ran elected now Secretary Deb Haaland to Congress, launched She the People, supported movements like the Women’s March and #BlackLivesMatter, and helped pass legislation to protect workers across numerous states with the Working Families Party -- from securing paid sick days to universal pre-k and paid leave to increasing the minimum wage. Meier has served as a Senior Advisor with New Disabled South for the last year.

Meier is an alum of Center for Popular Democracy, FitzGibbon Media, 350.org, the Obama for America Campaign, and numerous Democratic Party campaigns at the state and local level. Born and raised in Fairbanks, Alaska, they now live in Washington D.C. with their spouse, preschooler, and pup.