Alicia Roth Weigel

Alicia Roth Weigel is a writer and activist working to improve the landscape for marginalized populations in the South and worldwide through her firm, Intrepida Strategy. A Human Rights Commissioner for the City of Austin, she continually advocates for the rights of intersex people like her—work for which she has received numerous awards and which is featured in both Focus Features' documentary Every Body (directed by Julie Cohen of the film RBG) and her memoir Inverse Cowgirl. Over the past decade, Alicia has helmed nonprofits and political campaigns and has held various marketing and business development roles in Brazil, Angola, South Africa, and throughout the US. She has written for the New York Times and Time Magazine, has been interviewed by NPR's Terry Gross and the Washington Post's Jonathan Capehart and been featured in the Daily Mail, Forbes and more. She lives in Austin, Texas with her chihuahua Chiquita.