Caitlin, a.k.a Lulu, a dirty South transplant and current Portland, OR resident, is a disabled woman, a disability advocate, a foodie, and a drinkie. Caitlin sees Where’s Lulu as an opportunity to raise the standards of accessibility in everyday mainstream culture. She’s propelled by the fact that, despite being the world’s largest minority group, the disabled community continues to face marginalization and barriers at many levels.

Caitlin met Toshio her junior year of college and knew she’d found her platonic soul mate. Together, they embarked on the Where’s Lulu journey in order to normalize disability and shine a light on disability culture when most people don’t even know that ‘disability culture’ exists. Caitlin admits, “That’s ambitious. But through normalizing disability you erase stigma, which reduces barriers. By reducing barriers, you bring people together. That is the ultimate reason we started Where’s Lulu.”

Toshio, a San Francisco, CA resident, a writer, an occasional music-maker, and a self-proclaimed Cup Noodles connoisseur, sees Where’s Lulu from another angle. As a disability ally, Toshio understands Where’s Lulu as a progressive, guiding voice for the conversation around how disability culture interacts with the rest of the American culture. He sees many parallels between how disabled people are treated today and how other minorities have been treated in the past.

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