Qadri James Skipper, who died in 2012 at the age of 17, was a young activist who fought for equal access to education for students with pulmonary hypertension and hereditary hemorrhagic telangiectasia after the New York City Department of Education resisted granting him a specialized medical transport to school. He attended Information Technology High School in Long Island City, which posthumously awarded him a diploma and established a scholarship in his memory.