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- Birth nameBrooke MacKenzie Ellison
- Brooke Ellison was born on October 20, 1978 in Rockville Centre, New York, USA. She was a writer and producer, known for Hope Deferred (2009), The Brooke Ellison Story (2004) and Heart of a Hero: A Tribute to Christopher Reeve (2006). She died on February 4, 2024 in Stony Brook, New York, USA.
- Stonybrook graduate student whose life and struggle against paralysis was the subject of a made-for-TV movie directed by Christopher Reeve.
- Completed her Ph.D. in 2021 from Stony Brook University.
- On September 4, 1990, at the age of 11, she was hit by a car while walking home on her first day of junior high school, resulting in her being paralyzed from the neck down.
- Graduated summa cum laude from Harvard with a bachelor of science in cognitive neuroscience in 2000.
- In 2014 Rutgers University awarded Brooke Ellison an honorary doctorate in humane letters.
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