2024 Disability Futures Fellows

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Meet the Disability Futures Fellows

Anne, a white woman with short grey hair and wire-frame glasses, smiles up at the camera. She wears a grey shirt and pearls and sits on a brown leather chair.

Anne Finger

Oakland, CA
Cara, a lightskin Black woman with big curly hair, looks directly into the camera with a smile. She is wearing a black shirt with large silver earrings.

Cara Reedy

New York, NY
Christine, a white woman with short brown hair, wears a black v-neck dress with short sleeves and small square-shaped earrings. She looks directly into the camera with a slight smile.

Christine Bruno

New York, NY
Cyrée, a Black trans person in a leopard print shirt and wide-brimmed black hat, rests his head on his hand. Behind him are a potted plant and a tarot card on a glass table.

Cyrée Jarelle Johnson

Hudson Valley, NY
Day, an Arab-American woman in a suede jacket with brown skin and dark hair, sits with her eyes closed. In front of her, a yellow lab guide dog looks up and licks under her chin.

Day Al-Mohamed

Silver Spring, MD
Elliott has short brown curly hair with shaved sides, wears round tortoiseshell glasses, and winks at the camera. He wears a denim button-up shirt underneath a grey sweatshirt and smiles closed mouthed while resting his chin on his hand. Behind him are green bushes, ivy, and a standing heat lamp.

Elliott Fukui

Oakland, CA
Emily, a white woman with electric pinkish orange long loose curly hair, oversized tortoiseshell glasses, and a light blue dress with an embroidered red scorpion on the collar. She has crutches and various tattoos all over her arms, and she stands in a park on a sunny day with yellow flowers behind her. She is smiling and looking directly at the camera.

Emily Sara

Massachusetts
Finnegan, a white person with close-cropped hair, wears a multi-patterned, asymmetrical button-up shirt and gives a reserved smile.

Finnegan Shannon

Brooklyn, NY
Gabriela, a Latina woman with platinum hair pulled into an updo, wears a stack of gold rings around her neck and a black dress that covers one shoulder. She leans against the hood of a white car, and behind her is a cityscape.

Gabriela Cruz

Miami, FL
Gaelynn, a small white woman seated in an electric wheelchair, holds her violin and smiles. She has medium-length brown hair held back with a red flower clip and wears a white silky dress with large black beads sewn along the neck.

Gaelynn Lea

Duluth, MN
Johanna, a Korean American femme, wears a black leather jacket, black pants, and black platform Rick Owens boots. They sit in a wooden chair with one leg propped up on the arm rest.

Johanna Hedva

Los Angeles, CA
Kay, a brown, round queer, performs at a microphone with transgender and rainbow flags in the background. They wear a gray blazer and glasses.

Kay Ulanday Barrett

Rahway, NJ
Kayla poses in profile in front of a light blue background. She is a milk chocolate-skinned Black woman who is wearing a long sleeve black and tan striped shirt. She has shoulder length dreadlocks and a glowing smile.

Kayla Hamilton

Bronx, NY
Luz, an Afro-Indígena mixed race Boricua woman with grey and white wavy hair, rests her face in her hands and looks into the camera. She wears a top with magenta flowers.

Luz Guerra

Austin, TX
Nancy, a woman with long brown hair and glasses, holds her hands to her face, and looks off camera. Behind her is a rendition of the Mona Lisa in primary colors.

Nancy Rourke

Loveland, CO
Natasha, a dark-skinned Black woman with Afro curly hair, wears an ivory and pink polka dot blouse and smiles.

Natasha Ofili

Los Angeles, CA
On a dark red background, Saira, in their warm brown skin, tilts their eye toward a candle's flame. Their hair is in a large braided bun with black leather straps and silver spikes around it.

Saira Barbaric

Seattle, WA
Saleem, a Black man with a partially paralyzed face, an ever-widening smile, and a handlebar mustache, faces the camera. He wears clear-framed glasses, a plastic moisture chamber over his right eye, and a right-sided cochlear implant and sits comfortably hunched over a table with arms loosely folded. He wears a white T-shirt with “Blk joy” printed inside a red square and a pink and yellow floral-print bandana around his neck. Two pamphlet-style books created in first and second grade are on the table.

Saleem Hue Penny

Chicago, IL
Walela has a shaved head, neon green eyeliner, and a slightly closed lipped smile. They wear a lime green turtleneck paired with a lime green and royal blue plaid blazer and pants and stand with their hands crossed near their abdomen.

Walela Nehanda

Los Angeles, CA
Wawa, a Black male with salt and pepper hair and beard, wears clear glasses, a teal t-shirt, and plaid colored pants. On the right side of his head his red and white cochlear implant is visible. He is sitting in a chair, looking at the camera.

Warren “Wawa” Snipe

Aldie, VA