Yael Rubel Gurevich
Where science meets lived experience
Plenty of awareness talks talk about disability.
This one is different. I give it myself, as a researcher, from the inside — backed by years of scientific training.
My work stands on two legs at once: a scientific lens that bridges Biological and Social Sciences, and the lived reality of standing on an invisible border every day.
That’s the border where physical barriers — the missing ramp, the inclusion that never quite arrives — collide with the attitudes that put them there in the first place.
I live in an uncomfortable in-between: too “normal” for the disability community. Too “disabled” for a society that thinks of itself as normal.
That in-between isn’t a weakness. It’s exactly where I can build a bridge between both worlds.
I work from the Social and Human Rights Model: disability doesn’t live inside a person. It happens at the crossroads where a health condition meets an environment that wasn’t built to include it.
Education
- PhD in Social Sciences (2021) — Universidad Nacional de General Sarmiento, Argentina.
- Master’s in Disability Research (2020) — University of Salamanca, Spain.
- BSc in Biological Sciences (2009), Molecular Biology and Genetics — Universidad Maimónides, Argentina.
Track record
Doctoral fellow, CONICET (Argentina). Presented at international conferences: SDS, UBA Sociology Conference, CEISAL, LASA, ICA (2014-2018). Research fellowship at the National Institutes of Health (NIH, United States).
Talks delivered for UniverUSAL: The Inclusive University, a University of Salamanca program awarded the ONCE Social Group Solidarity Prize, Castille and Leon, 2023.
Who this is for
Already run the standard sensitivity workshop? And felt like it didn’t go far enough?
I work with companies, public institutions, schools, and nonprofits who want to get to the root of prejudice — not just check a box.
What I bring to the stage
Talks that pair academic rigor with first-person storytelling. In Spanish or English, in person or remote.
Every session is built for real dialogue, not a passive audience.
My training gives me the method and the science. Lived experience gives me the authenticity. And the stage gives me a voice that closes distance, dismantles prejudice, and changes how people see the world.
