Unapologetic Accessibility with Tiffany Yu

Since 2009 Tiffany Yu has been working towards creating opportunities and growing the disabled community through events and employment opportunities. On this our 100 episode we hear Tiffany's story from becoming disabled at age 9, her career in investment banking, how her community and organization Diversability grew four times its original size during the Covid-19 Pandemic and the creation of her new book The Anti-Ableist Manifesto Smashing Stereotypes, Forging Change, and Building a Disability-Inclusive World. To check this out and Tiffany's other works click the links below.

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Tiffany Yu

Author, The Anti-Ableist Manifesto

Tiffany Yu is the CEO & Founder of Diversability, an award-winning social enterprise to elevate disability pride; the Founder of the Awesome Foundation Disability Chapter, a monthly micro-grant that has awarded $82.5k to 83 disability projects in 11 countries; and the author of The Anti-Ableist Manifesto: Smashing Stereotypes, Forging Change, and Building a Disability-Inclusive World.

She serves on the LA28 Olympic and Paralympic Games Working Group and was a Co-Chair of the World Economic Forum Sustainable Development Impact Summit. At the age of 9, Tiffany became disabled as a result of a car accident that also took the life of her father.

She started her career in investment banking at Goldman Sachs and has also worked at Bloomberg and Sean Diddy Combs’ REVOLT Media & TV. Her TED Talk, How to Help Employees with Disabilities Thrive, has over one million views. She has been featured in The Wall Street Journal, The New York Times, The Guardian, USA Today, Marie Claire, and Forbes.