[Event] Book Talk | The Anti-Ableist Manifesto by Tiffany Yu

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Access: ASL interpreters provided. Note that the venue has been updated to 115 Bowery, Welcome to Chinatown. Welcome to Chinatown is wheelchair accessible and has a wheelchair accessible restroom. Please reach out to Yu & Me Books should you have additional access requirements ideally one week in advance of the event date. We will make an effort to accommodate all requests up until the time of the event.

ABOUT THE BOOK

Tiffany Yu takes readers on a revelatory examination of disability—how to unpack biases and build an inclusive and accessible world.

As the Asian American daughter of immigrants, living with PTSD, and sustaining a permanent arm injury at age nine, Tiffany Yu is well aware of the intersections of identity that affect us all. She navigated the male-dominated world of corporate finance as an investment banker at Goldman Sachs before founding Diversability, an award-winning community business run by disabled people building disability pride, power, and leadership, and creating the viral Anti-Ableism series on TikTok.

Organized from personal to professional, domestic to political, Me to We to Us, The Anti-Ableist Manifesto frames context for conversations, breaks down the language of ableism, identifies microaggressions, and offers actions that lead to authentic allyship.

• How do we remove ableist language from our daily vocabulary?
• How do we create inclusive events?
• What are the advantages of hiring disabled employees, and what market opportunities are we missing out on when we don’t consider disabled consumers?

With contributions from disability advocates, activists, authors, entrepreneurs, scholars, educators, and executives, Yu celebrates the power of stories and lived experiences to foster the proximity, intimacy, and humanity of disability identities that have far too often been “othered” and rendered invisible.

ABOUT THE AUTHOR

Tiffany Yu is an award-winning social impact entrepreneur, disability advocate, and content creator. She is the founder and CEO of Diversability, a social enterprise aiming to elevate disability pride and build disability power. Having started her career at Goldman Sachs, Bloomberg, and REVOLT, Yu is now an in-demand corporate speaker, creating an approachable bridge in corporate diversity, equity, and inclusion spaces. Yu is the cofounder of the Awesome Foundation Disability Chapter, serves on the LA28 Olympic and Paralympic Games Working Group, and was a co-chair of the World Economic Forum Sustainable Development Impact Summit. Her TED Talk, How to Help Employees with Disabilities Thrive, has over one million views. Her work and story have been featured in The Wall Street Journal, The New York Times, Business Insider, Marie Claire, Forbes, USA Today, The Guardian and more.

IN CONVERSATION WITH

Nitika Chopra is the Founder and CEO of Chronicon and The Chronicon Foundation, dedicated to empowering individuals with chronic illnesses. With a personal journey marked by psoriasis and psoriatic arthritis diagnoses since childhood, Nitika turned her experiences into a force for change. Her entrepreneurial spirit led her to host her own TV show, 'Naturally Beautiful,' and organize over 100 transformative events. Nitika's influence extends to partnerships with major brands like Google, Microsoft, and Bristol-Myers Squibb, where she advocates for the chronic illness community.