SPEAKING
After becoming disabled in 2016, I made it my goal to be open and honest about my story. Beginning with Instagram, I started to share the realities of my life with chronic illness and disability. Talking to people about my experiences continues to surprise me and help me grow my own knowledge of what it means to be disabled. Going forward, I hope to continue bringing visibility to these issues through speaking engagements. By sharing my story, I hope to help audiences reframe their conception of disability and the disability rights movement.
Listen to me reflect on my identity as a disabled person and why I decided to become a lawyer.
Previous Speaking Engagements
OUTLaw and DALSA, New York University School of Law
Topic: Intersectional Identities (moderator), featuring Lydia X. Z. Brown, Victoria Roldán-Rodriguez, and T. Sydney Bergeron Mikus
Tanner Center for Human Rights, University of Utah
Topic: The intersection of disability justice and decarceration efforts
Phi Alpha Delta, University of Florida
Topic: Diverse Perspectives on Law School
Syracuse University College of Law
Topic: Disabled in Law School
My Dearest Friends Project by DisArt
Topic: My disability identity and activism in the era of COVID
University of Virginia School of Medicine
Topic: Disability rights in healthcare
Presentations on digital accessibility and accommodations to a variety of audiences
