THE WORK BEYOND THE STAGE
PHILANTHROPIST.
A PLATFORM IS ONLY USEFUL IF YOU USE IT.
Adrianne learned early that showing up mattered. At fourteen, she helped build homes in Tijuana for Habitat for Humanity, years before she had a public platform to use. Since then, she has turned visibility into action: showing up, speaking clearly, and getting to work.
PROSTHETIC ACCESS
THE RIGHT
TO MOVE.
In 2016, Adrianne and Team Adrianne Strong raised more than $45,000 for Limbs for Life, helping provide prosthetic care to people who could not otherwise afford it.
Adrianne traveled to Ecuador twice with the Range of Motion Project (ROMP), raising funds to expand access to prosthetic care. Alongside fellow amputees, she climbed two of the country’s highest peaks in a powerful celebration of mobility, possibility, and everything access makes possible.
She has also taken the fight to Washington and worked alongside the Amputee Coalition to challenge policies that restrict access to essential prosthetic care. In 2019, she founded the Adrianne Strong Foundation to help active and soon-to-be-active amputees get the running legs they need.
MOBILITY IS NOT A LUXURY.
PARA SPORT EQUITY
THE RIGHT
TO COMPETE.
For six years, Adrianne pushed the Boston Marathon to create competitive divisions for athletes with lower-limb impairments. In 2021, that work became permanent change, opening the starting line to athletes who had previously been excluded from meaningful competition.
The goal was never to create a place for one athlete. It was to build a competitive stage where others could race, be recognized as strong and powerful, and know that they belong. Inclusion does more than make room. It changes who the world gets to see.
Adrianne has been grateful to compete alongside the athletes these divisions were created to serve. In 2022, she won the women’s T61–64 para division at the B.A.A. 10K, a moment she sees as part of a much larger collective victory.
INCLUSION CHANGES WHO GETS TO BE SEEN.
REPRESENTATION
THE RIGHT
TO BE SEEN.
Adrianne visits amputees in hospitals and carries disability representation into stages, interviews, sport, dance, and fashion. The goal is not inspiration. It is visibility, access, and a fuller picture of who belongs.
HOUSING IS A DISABILITY ISSUE
HOME IS WHERE EVERYTHING ELSE BECOMES POSSIBLE.
Since moving home to Seattle, Adrianne is partnering with Plymouth Housing to support permanent homes and integrated services for people who have experienced long-term homelessness.
Of the people Plymouth served in 2024, 94 percent had at least one disability. That makes housing access disability advocacy. Adrianne’s Seattle Dances campaign brings the work back to one of the most fundamental forms of dignity: a safe place to live.
LEARN MORE ABOUT PLYMOUTH HOUSING →MOVEMENT. ACCESS. DIGNITY. HOME.
DIFFERENT CHAPTERS.
SAME PURPOSE.
Show up. Speak up. Move something forward.
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