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2022 Disability Futures Fellows

Meet the Disability Futures Fellows

Alexandria Wailes

New York, NY

A light-skinned, biracial woman with dark, curly, shoulder-length hair and pink lipstick. She is wearing a blue, ruffled top and is in front of a grey backdrop.

Alison O'Daniel

Los Angeles & San Francisco, CA

A white woman with long brown hair and hazel eyes leaning against a red textured wall. She is wearing a black-and-white patterned sweater

Antoine Hunter a/k/a Purple Fire Crow

Oakland, CA

An African-American and Indigenous person with dark chocolate skin from his mother. He has almond-shaped eyes with long lashes, long black locs tied in a low braid with a single loc visible across his cheek, and a full beard. He is bare-chested with his left hand raised artistically near his face.

Camisha L. Jones

Herndon, VA

A Black, cisgender woman with brown skin and hair styled in two-strand twists. She is smiling and wearing makeup, glasses, dangling earrings decorated with jewel-toned stones, a necklace, and a V-neck purple dress. She is in a park and there are trees behind her.

Corbett Joan O'Toole

An older, large, white woman with short, greying hair, sitting and smiling in the driver seat of a white van. She is wearing a colorful patterned sleeveless top. In front of her are sky blue streamers attached to the side-view mirror of the van that flow and curl in the wind and cover part of her torso.

Dickie Hearts

New York, NY

A multiracial man. He has dark brown, curly hair, wears a gray t-shirt, and smiles warmly at the camera.

JJJJJerome Ellis

Norfolk, VA

A Black man holding a tenor saxophone and a stalk of sugar cane above his head. He is wearing a white, short-sleeved shirt and a black saxophone neckstrap. Behind him is a wall of gray stone, cymbals, and microphones on stands.

Kenny Fries

Berlin, Germany & Kauneonga Lake, NY

A white man with short brown hair and rectangular glasses. He wears a bright purple shirt and glances up towards the camera.

Khadijah Queen

A brown-skinned woman in her 40s with brown eyes, curly salt-and-pepper hair, a white silk blouse, and a gold necklace. She is smiling and looking at the camera. The background is dark on the left side, lighter toward the right.

M Eifler

San Francisco, CA

Two people viewing a screen. On the screen is a person with blond, purple, and pink hair wearing a digital mask and smiling brightly. A label reads, ""Masking Machine, M. Eifler."""

Naomi Ortiz

Tucson, AZ

A light-skinned Mestizx with dark hair, silver hoop earrings, burgundy lipstick, and a black sweater with a white star. They sit in their scooter smiling and surrounded by golden creosote bushes.

Nasreen Alkhateeb

Los Angeles, CA

A multi-heritage woman with long tightly wound dark brown locks, wearing red lipstick and a high neck black shirt. Background is darkly lit with one purple light illuminating her left side onto her hair.

NEVE

Seattle (Duwamish & Coast Salish lands), WA

A multigender, multiracial person. S(He) has brown skin and dark eyes, short purple hair, and is wearing a red t-shirt. Positioned against a black background, NEVE’s face is tilted up and turned slightly off center, with a broad smile that shows NEVE’s two front teeth.

QuestionATL

East Point, GA

A biracial man with dreadlocks. He is wearing a red shirt and sunglasses and stands beside a brick wall, holding a white cane.

Reverend Joyce McDonald

Brooklyn, NY

A Black woman with her hair styled in long braids. She has pulled down a green face mask to smile joyfully at the camera and is wearing a white and green floral shirt.

Sandie (Chun-shan) Yi

Chicago, IL

Acrylic paint portrait of Yi, a Taiwanese woman with golden peach skin tone and black hair. She is wearing a grey, long-sleeve shirt and looking to her left side with two fingers of each hand placed on each side of her face. The shine on her hair is painted in light silver blue. The background is red flowers with blue and black patterns and a variation of greens

Sandy Ho

Boston, MA

Photo of Ho, an Asian American woman. She is wearing a striped shirt, a dark blue cardigan, and red glasses. She sits in a power wheelchair in a field.

Tee Franklin

New Jersey

A Black woman with faux locs in a half up/down ponytail hairstyle. She is wearing a blouse patterned with tulips and staring into the camera.]

Wendy Lu

New York, NY

Lu, a Chinese American woman, smiling warmly at the camera. She is wearing black-framed glasses, a tracheostomy tube, and a blue sweater over a white button-down shirt. She is standing in front of a tree with yellow leaves.

Yo-Yo Lin

Brooklyn, NY

A Taiwanese American femme in her late 20s. She has dark hair with bleached blonde ends and wears red lipstick, a black turtleneck, and a small beaded necklace. She sits in front of a tan backdrop.