AJ Link is openly autistic. He earned his JD from The George Washington University Law School and his LL.M in Space Law at the University of Mississippi School of Law.
He is the 2020 recipient of the Michael Dillon Cooley Memorial Award, a 2020 inductee of the Susan M. Daniels Disability Mentoring Hall of Fame, and the first ever winner of the Above Space Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Award.
He was the inaugural director of The Center for Air and Space Law Task Force on Inclusion, Diversity, and Equity in Aerospace. AJ serves as a research director for the
Jus Ad Astra project and the space law and policy chair for Black in Astro. AJ is the human rights and policy lead for the Palestine Space Institute Association and an
accessibility lead for AstroAccess. He is the board president of Crip the Law and the founding president of the National Disabled Law Students Association and the National Disabled Legal Professionals.
AJ is most excited about supporting the Crip Abundance Network as it grows into a reliable support community for disabled people across the social, cultural, and political matrix of disability.
Building community-based social support systems for disabled people and our families.