Headshot of Tiffany, an Asian woman with shoulder-length brown hair, red and white beaded hoops, a beige shawl. and a brace on her right wrist smiling at the camera and leaning against a low white wall with the fronds of a palm tree brushing against her head.
Workshop Facilitator, Empovia

Tiffany Yu

(She/Her)
Social impact entrepreneur, podcaster, disability advocate, and 3x TEDx speaker

About Tiffany

Tiffany Yu is the CEO & Founder of Diversability, an award-winning entirely disabled-run and led social enterprise to elevate disability pride, and a content creator with 190k+ followers across platforms. She is a 3x TEDx speaker and has been named a TikTok API (Asian & Pacific Islander) Trailblazer, a LinkedIn Top Voice in Disability Advocacy, and a Well+Good Changemaker. Her first book, The Anti-Ableist Manifesto, will be published by Hachette Go in 2024.

Tiffany has helped to invest over $170,000 in disability initiatives through the Awesome Foundation Disability Chapter and the Disability Empowerment Endowed Fund at Georgetown University. She has been featured in Marie Claire, the Guardian, and Forbes. She started her career in investment banking at Goldman Sachs and has also worked at Bloomberg and Sean Diddy Combs’ REVOLT Media & TV. She earned a bachelor’s degree from Georgetown University and a master’s from the London School of Economics. At the age of 9, Tiffany became disabled as a result of a car accident that also took the life of her father.