Linda Gail Arrigo

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Linda Gail Arrigo

Linda Gail Arrigo (艾琳達), who first came to Taiwan in the early 1960s as a teenager, is a veteran of the Taiwan democracy movement in the 1970s and 1980s. Though banned from entering Taiwan after the events of the Kaohsiung Incident, she continued to advocate for Taiwanese democracy afterward outside of Taiwan and has continued to be a participant in social movements after eventually being able to return to Taiwan in 1990. From 2007 to 2012, Arrigo taught at Taipei Medical University