​Tiffany Yu + Mia Ives-Rublee: The Anti-Ableist Manifesto

​Tuesday, November 26 from 7:00-8:00PM ET

​Join us for a book event with disability advocate Tiffany Yu for a discussion of her debut book The Anti-Ableist Manifesto: Smashing Stereotypes, Forging Change, and Building a Disability-Inclusive World.

​Joining Tiffany in conversation is Mia Ives-Rublee.

​This event will be hosted at Politics & Prose in Washington, DC (5015 Connecticut Avenue NW).

​Flow of the event:

• ​07:00 - Fireside chat with Tiffany and Mia

• ​07:30 - Q&A

• ​07:45 - Signing and meet & greet

​This event is free with first come, first served seating. 

​ACCESSIBILITY

​ASL interpreters will be provided at this event.

​P&P on Connecticut Ave. NW is wheelchair accessible.

​There is a van-accessible parking spot in our lot across from the entrance to The Den Coffeehouse.

​The store is situated on two floors, and we have an elevator, located in the Children and Teens Department (near the puzzles and toys) on the lower level and in the Fiction Room on the main level. There is a staircase to enter the Sale Books room on the main level. To access this room without stairs, notify a P&P bookseller for guidance to an alternate entrance. 

​To request accommodations for this event or to inquire about accessibility please email events@politics-prose.com ideally one week in advance of the event date. We will make an effort to accommodate all requests up until the time of the event.

​Full details: https://politics-prose.com/event/2024-11-26/tiffany-yu-anti-ableist-manifesto-smashing-stereotypes-forging-change-and-building

​In THE ANTI-ABLEIST MANIFESTO, Tiffany Yu presents frameworks for conversations, breaks down the language of ableism, and proposes real actions that lead to genuine and authentic allyship. Yu includes contributions from disability advocates, activists, authors, entrepreneurs, scholars, educators, and executives to highlight the importance of an intersectional view of disability and celebrates the power of stories and lived experiences to center the vast range of disabled identities that have far too often been “othered” and rendered invisible.

​Organized from the personal to the professional, the domestic to the political, Me to We to Us, THE ANTI-ABLEIST MANIFESTO offers the tools to become an active anti-ableist including:

• ​Ways to support disabled people within our communities

• ​Identifying and preventing microaggressions, and removing ableist language from our vocabulary

• ​How to increase accessibility in public and professional spaces

• ​How to create truly inclusive events

​ABOUT TIFFANY YU

​Tiffany Yu is an award-winning social impact entrepreneur, disability advocate, and content creator. She is the founder and CEO of Diversability, a social enterprise aiming to elevate disability pride and build disability power. Having started her career at Goldman Sachs, Bloomberg, and REVOLT, Yu is now an in-demand corporate speaker, creating an approachable bridge in corporate diversity, equity, and inclusion spaces. Yu is the cofounder of the Awesome Foundation Disability Chapter, serves on the NIH National Advisory Board on Medical Rehabilitation Research (NABMRR), and was a co-chair of the World Economic Forum Sustainable Development Impact Summit. Her TED Talk, How to Help Employees with Disabilities Thrive, has over one million views. Her work and story have been featured in The Wall Street Journal, The New York Times, Business Insider, Marie Claire, Forbes, USA Today, The Guardian and more.

​ABOUT MIA IVES-RUBLEE

​Mia Ives-Rublee is a policy analyst, community organizer, international speaker, and passionate advocate. She currently works as the director of the Disability Justice Initiative at the Center for American Progress and is one of the commissioners on the President's Advisory Committee on Asian Americans, Native Hawaiians, and Pacific Islanders. She graduated from the University of Illinois with a Bachelor's in Sociology and from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill with a Master's in social work.

​After experiencing significant issues with the safety net system personally and with her clients at the NC Division of Vocational Rehabilitation, Mia decided to commit herself to addressing more systemic issues. She worked in research, policy analysis, campaigning, and community organizing fighting for the rights of the most marginalized, including disabled people, immigrants, LGBTQ folks, and people of color. 

​Mia helped organize the Women's March by developing a disability caucus and ensuring Deaf interpreters were represented on stage for the original March. This helped push other progressive organizations and events do more to be more accessible and inclusive and clearly helped to eventually hire the first ASL interpreters at the White House. Mia got numerous awards for her work, including  having Glamour magazine name her as one of 2017’s Women of the Year Award. She was also recognized by She the People as one of 20 Women of Color in Politics to Watch in 2020 and awarded the 2019 Distinguished Alumni Award from the University of North Carolina (UNC) School of Social Work.