Portfolio

Speaking Appearances

Lived Experience of Hepatitis B, panel speaker at HBF & ICE-HBV Hepatitis B Community Forum 2024

How do I become a patient advocate? Patient Forum Keynote at AASLD The Liver Meeting 2023

Patient Speaker for Press Conference at San Francisco City Hall (2024)

Patient Storyteller

Live Well, B You: Healthy Lifestyle When Living with Hepatitis B – Patient story (NEMS)

Live Well, B You: Family Planning When Living with Hepatitis B – Patient story (NEMS)

Wendy’s Story – #justB Mindful – Patient story (HBF)

Wendy’s Journey as a Hepatitis B Patient Advocate – B Heppy podcast, Episode 53 (HBF)

Living with Hep B – Ep 8: Wendy L – Hep B Free

Creator of Storytellers in Action Program

Storytellers in Action (SiA) is a six-month training and mentorship program co-created by Wendy with the Hep B Foundation.

Wendy drew from her own experience and expertise as an advocate to design the curriculum tailored specifically for patient storytellers to develop the skills and confidence to become advocates.

Community Education & Media

Stigma, Insufficient Screening Keep Hepatitis B in the Shadows – San Francisco Public Press (2025)

Health Organizers in SF Build Model of Care for People Living with Chronic Hepatitis B – SF Public Press, Civic Podcast, Ep 439 (2025)

Taking Care of Your Liver After A Hepatitis B Diagnosis – Webinar presenter, Hepatitis B Foundation (2022)

Efforts to combat hepatitis B across the U.S. and globally discussed in a recent Chicago forum – Hepatitis B Foundation press release (2025)

Dropping hepatitis B shots for newborns would ignore history and endanger children, scientists warn – STAT News (2025)

Publications (co-author)

Urgent need for lived experience in hepatitis B guideline development – Freeland C., Lo W., Kabagambe K., et al. The Lancet Gastroenterology & Hepatology (2024)

Best practices for engaging with affected communities: chronic hepatitis B as a case study – Tu et al. Infectious Diseases of Poverty (2025)