Grace White

Grace White is a Florida-based graphic designer, content creator, and disability and chronic illness advocate whose work centers on disability justice, accessibility, and community care. Since 2021, she has built an online platform dedicated to honest storytelling, educational advocacy, and intentional design, creating spaces that prioritize connection and lived experience. Through her creative and advocacy work, Grace amplifies disabled and chronically ill voices, working to make complex medical issues more accessible, inclusive, and human.

 

Grace was officially diagnosed with Nutcracker Syndrome in January 2025 after more than eight years of severe symptoms and persistent self-advocacy to be evaluated for the condition. Previously diagnosed with another abdominal vascular compression syndrome in 2023, Median Arcuate Ligament Syndrome (MALS), she was familiar with Nutcracker Syndrome and advocated for further testing when her left-sided pain persisted after her MALS release surgery. In June 2025, Grace underwent two unsuccessful left renal vein transposition surgeries. Ultimately, she opted for a renal autotransplant, which she underwent in December 2025.

 

Her lived experience with Nutcracker Syndrome deeply informs her commitment to patient advocacy, awareness, and resource accessibility. Grace is passionate about ensuring patients feel informed, validated, and supported throughout their diagnostic and treatment journeys.

 

Outside of her advocacy and design work, Grace enjoys knitting, crocheting, sewing, photography, and digital illustration. She loves attending concerts, exploring record stores, visiting local art museums, and antiquing or thrifting wherever she goes. Grace holds an associate’s degree in Digital Media and is currently pursuing her bachelor’s degree in Graphic Design. A fun fact about her is that her top music artist for 2024-25 was (and still is) Dire Straits, and she has a well-documented love for Dunkin’ Refreshers. She also has two cats she adores, Luna & Bea.

 

Grace shares her advocacy and educational work through her social platforms @ItsGraceAshlin and runs an Etsy shop where she creates disability-centered designs on apparel, stickers, and bags.