Five disability awareness talks, ready to book for your organization.None of them is the sensitivity talk people forget by the next morning.
These aren’t built to fill an hour and check a box. They’re built to change something after that hour is over.
A concept still under construction
How the idea of disability has changed through history
“Disability” hasn’t always meant what it means today. I’ll walk you through how we got here — and why the definition is still shifting.
A journey through how the concept of disability has evolved, from hunter-gatherer societies to now.
Still an unfinished story.
Goal: show that “disability” isn’t a fixed, natural category — it’s a historical construction, still being revised.
Best for: schools, public institutions, and nonprofits that want real context before they talk about inclusion, instead of repeating a slogan with nothing underneath it.
The path I didn’t choose, and the voice I built
My own story with disability
I’m not here to move you to tears. I’m here to show you, clearly, how a life gets built.
My own story, in my own words. How disability entered my life.
The road I’ve walked since. And how, along the way, science became part of how I understand myself.
Goal: put a human face on the topic through a real, lived account — proof that academic rigor and personal experience reinforce each other instead of competing.
Best for: any organization that wants to open with something real instead of a welcome speech. Especially powerful in schools, or as the opener for an awareness event.
What do you see when you see me?
Prejudice has an explanation — and it can change: the science of bias and self-image
Prejudice isn’t a character flaw. It’s a mechanism. And mechanisms can be understood — and changed.
Drawing on neuropsychology, I break down how prejudice against disability actually forms.
And how that social gaze ends up shaping how people with disabilities see themselves.
Goal: give people real tools to spot and dismantle prejudice — their own and other people’s — by understanding where it comes from.
Best for: companies with a CSR function, and public bodies that need more than a twenty-minute unconscious-bias seminar.
Not all women, not all people with disabilities
Where gender and disability intersect
Talk about disability without talking about gender, and you’re only telling half the story.
Gender isn’t just another variable here. It’s a category that runs through everything and reshapes how disability is actually lived.
Compounding certain barriers at that intersection.
Goal: surface an intersection that most sensitivity talks skip entirely.
Best for: gender-focused organizations, universities, and companies already doing diversity work who haven’t yet put gender and disability in the same conversation.
What you gain when you hire the person, not the label
The value no résumé shows
Hiring to hit a quota satisfies the law. Hiring someone for what they actually bring satisfies something bigger: the team.
Disability isn’t a gap to make up for. It’s a perspective built through everyday problem-solving.
This talk shows how that perspective strengthens a team — and becomes a real asset for the business.
Goal: shift the conversation from “inclusion as an obligation” to “inclusion as a genuine competitive edge.”
Best for: HR and leadership teams that have already hit the quota and are ready to start capturing real value.
Talk formats
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Every talk runs about an hour. Three formats available:
- Talk + Q&A — 45 minutes of presentation, 15–20 minutes of open questions and discussion.
- Interactive — dialogue woven through the whole session, not saved for the end.
- Hands-on workshop (in person only) — the group co-builds the session with me. My role: facilitator, not lecturer. Discussion runs throughout.
In person or remote (workshop format: in person only). Spanish or English.
Fees
Fees available on request, based on organization type and format. Reduced rates for nonprofits, with particular consideration for organizations run by or for people with disabilities.
