Alicia Roth Weigel

In 2023, Alicia Roth Weigel stepped onto the national stage from two directions at once: she was profiled alongside River Gallo and Sean Saifa Wall in “Every Body,” the Julie Cohen-directed documentary produced by NBC News Studios that premiered at the Tribeca Festival on June 11, 2023 and was released by Focus Features on June 30, 2023, and she published her memoir, “Inverse Cowgirl,” the same year. Born in Philadelphia in 1990 and named for Hurricane Alicia, which struck Texas in 1983, she was diagnosed at birth with complete androgen insensitivity syndrome. Raised female after a gonadectomy, she spent years navigating a medical system that often kept intersex patients in the dark about their own bodies.

Weigel graduated from the Shipley School in 2008 and earned a Bachelor of Arts in Development Economics and Latin American Studies from Cornell University. That academic grounding in economics and international affairs shaped an advocacy career built on policy rather than sentiment alone. Her writing and public speaking confront the surgeries and secrecy imposed on intersex children, drawing directly from her own medical history with candor and precision.

Her civic influence is concrete: she served as a Human Rights Commissioner for Austin, Texas, helping shape municipal policy on equity and civil rights, and she founded Intrepida Strategy, a firm extending her advocacy into consulting and campaign work. Through film, memoir, and policy, Weigel has become one of the most visible intersex advocates in the United States, pairing personal storytelling with institutional change.