![]() ![]() I am also featured in People of Color Productions’ forthcoming documentary I Identify As Me, directed and produced by Tina Colleen and Monick Monell, and HBO Max’s documentary Persona: The Dark Truth Behind Personality Tests. I am one of ten young activist icons featured in Amplifier’s We The Future Campaign. Ashkenazy, I co-edited the first edition of the anthology All the Weight of Our Dreams: On Living Racialized Autism. I created and curate Bearing Witness, Demanding Freedom, the Living Archive and Repository of the Judge Rotenberg Center’s Abuses. I founded and lead the Fund for Community Reparations for Autistic People of Color’s Interdependence, Survival, and Empowerment, in partnership with the Autistic Women and Nonbinary Network. I have provided trainings and consultations to hundreds of individuals, educational institutions, agencies, companies, and organizations across numerous professional and academic fields on a range of issues impacting disabled, queer, trans, and negatively racialized people. My work begins at and centers intersections of disability, queerness, race, gender, class, and nation and migration. Honored by the Obama White House as a Champion of Change for embodying the next generation of leadership within the disability communityįeatured in NBC, Rewire News, Huffington Post, Everyday Feminism, Washington Post, Soledad O’Brien’s Matter of Fact TV, Al Jazeera, Mic News, Autostraddle, BBC, POOR Magazine, The Guardian, Supermajority News, CNN, Wear Your Voice Mag, NPR, Gay Star News, NOS Magazine, Boston Globe, Black Girl Dangerous, Vanity Fair, Marie Claire, Wall Street Journal, and moreĪmong many other things, I am a writer, public speaker, educator, trainer, consultant, advocate, community organizer, community builder, activist, scholar, and attorney.įor over a decade, I have worked to address and end interpersonal and state violence targeting disabled people, especially disabled people at the margins of the margins, in our own homes and communities, in movement spaces, in schools, in disability-specific institutions, and in jails and prisons. Named to the Mic 50 list of the next generation of impactful leaders, cultural influencers and breakthrough innovators, recognizing “bold trailblazers who are unafraid to push boundaries and rethink the world” and “who represent the very best of our generation” ![]() Recognized as a Top 30 Thinker Under 30 in the Social Sciences by Pacific Standard Listed in NBC Asian America Presents: A to Z, celebrating the emerging voices and breakout stars of the Asian American and Pacific Islander communities, who are “writing new definitions every day” Named to Gold House Foundation’s A100 List of the Most Impactful Asians and Asian Pacific Islanders in Culture Honored by NowThis Next as a change-maker of the world for Disability Rights ![]() Named to them.’s Now List of LGBTQ+ Visionaries working to better our community during a uniquely challenging era Recognized by Public Knowledge’s 20/20 Visionary Awards as a future leader who will drive tech policy in the public interest for the next 20 years ![]()
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