National Leadership Program, Spring 2025
E. Murphy King
E. Murphy King (they/he) is a Policy and Civic Engagement Fellow in Disability Belongs™’ National Leadership Program for Spring 2025. Disability Belongs™ is a national nonprofit organization fighting stigmas and advancing opportunities so that people with disabilities can fully participate in all aspects of community.
King is also a Paul Marchand Disability Policy Fellow at The Arc of the United States in Spring 2025. King is a disability policy and eugenics history specialist with a degree in the History of Science and Women and Gender Studies from Harvard College. They grew up in Wisconsin and Arizona and specialize in bipartisan coalition building and inclusive recruitment and retention which they further developed in the U.S. House of Representatives working for the Honorable Mark Pocan (WI-02).
In college, King was a trans athlete competing nationally in USA College Curling and advising on trans athletics policy. They founded and led TransHarvard – the largest student-run and free trans conference in history – and succeeded in bringing thousands of advocates and allies together.
Additionally, King was voted by his peers to lead student input committees at Harvard University in the Office of Equity, Diversity, Inclusion, and Belonging, founded and ran a nonprofit serving students left behind during the height of the COVID-19 pandemic, and was a freelance speechwriter for the United Nations Middle East and North Africa Bureau.
King is passionate about historical and evidence-based equity approaches in policy and challenging the binaries that restrict access to services and community in disability, gender, and sports policy.
