Olga Lucia Torres, J.D., M.S.
Lecturer, Narrative Medicine
Olga Lucia Torres has been sick her entire life: a pediatric pituitary adenoma, followed by lupus and five other autoimmune diseases, and then a devastating brain injury that left her disabled. She recovered and now works as a health law attorney and patient advocate.
A first-generation Latina, Olga was one of the eight founding attorneys of the Bronx Defenders and now lectures in Columbia University's Narrative Medicine program. She is the inaugural Northeast Advocacy Chair for the Lupus Foundation of America and serves on the Patient Engagement Collaborative, working alongside the FDA and CTTI. Olga also chairs the Board of Trustees of the Multicultural Media Correspondents Association, an organization dedicated to increasing diversity across all platforms of media.
Her writing on living in New York City with disabilities and chronic illness has appeared in the New York Times, Parents Magazine, and numerous other publications.
