I’m a disability advocate utilizing an intersectional lens perspective from lived experience as a Black disabled woman born with a form of Muscular Dystrophy that impacts mobility and respiratory muscles, mother, caregiver, and community-builder. I’m a graduate of Emerson College with a degree in Mass Communications and a resident of Boston, Massachusetts. I serve on a handful of disability-related boards and projects and delight in the wisdom, growth, and insight that has shaped my self-awareness and sharpened my advocacy skills which I use to help inform public policy and fuel my artistry as a writer and speaker. I’m also a cane-user and on occasion a wheelchair, a daydreamer, chocolate lover, and believe music and food are medicine. Indulge me while I hold virtual salon, pontificate with grapes, dance in my seat to hype beats shaking heavy hips bringing some levity to complex topics.
Disclaimer
“Slow Walkers See More” serves as my personal mantra and an expression of my own experiences and viewpoints. It does not represent the positions of any organization I work for or with.
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*T-shirt by Imani Barbarin purchased here: https://www.teepublic.com/t-shirt/2012199-disabled-black-and-proud?store_id=135490