Tiffany Yu
Tiffany Yu is an entrepreneur and disability rights advocate.
Yu was raised in Bethesda, Maryland and became disabled in a car accident, at the age of 9. In 2009, while studying at Georgetown University, Yu founded Diversability, a social enterprise whose mission is to change the stigma surrounding disabilities and create community. After graduation from Georgetown, Yu continued to run Diversability as she worked at companies including Goldman Sachs, Bloomberg, and Revolt, and in 2016, she won the Guardian's "My Side Hustle Wins" contest for her work with Diversability.
Yu was a speaker at the 2018 World Economic Forum in Davos as part of the "We Need to Talk About" series and named a World Economic Forum Global Shaper. She serves on the Leadership Committee for the Paul K. Longmore Institute's Disability Cultural Center in San Francisco. She was also awarded the Bell Greve Award from the National Rehabilitation Association in 2015.External Links
