Imani Barbarin
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Imani Barbarin is a disability rights and inclusion activist, writer, and keynote speaker born with cerebral palsy. She uses her platforms to advocate for the disabled community, particularly from the perspective of a Black woman. Raised in Philadelphia, she holds a B.A. in Creative Writing from Eastern University and a Master’s in Global Communications from the American University of Paris.
Barbarin founded CrutchesAndSpice.com in 2014, sharing insights on disability, race, and intersectionality, and has created trending hashtags like #AbledsAreWeird, #PatientsAreNotFaking, and #MyDisabledLifeIsWorthy to amplify disabled voices. Her work appears in Forbes, Refinery29, and Healthline, and she’s spoken at universities and on PBS’s "MetroFocus".
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