Milz is a Houston-based disability advocate, content creator, and an occupational therapy student dedicated to empowering wheelchair users through education, accessibility, and independence. After sustaining a spinal cord injury in 2014 and becoming a quadriplegic, Milz faced the complex reality of redefining identity, independence, and what “normal” truly means.

In the years following injury, she has been obsessed with walking, trying to figure out what “normal” even means. There’s no blueprint to life after a spinal cord injury. Finding balance between accepting herself and pushing too hard at the gym became exhausting.

Milz is the founder of Wheelie Cool Things, a brand created to empower wheelchair users through practical tools, honest conversations, and advocacy. What began as a passion project has grown into a platform rooted in representation and real-life skills. Alongside building her brand, she is pursuing occupational therapy with the goal of becoming the kind of practitioner every patient deserves to see — one who understands lived experience and brings authentic representation into the professional space.