Full Name
Isabella Ramirez de Arellano
Job Title
Researcher and Organizer
Company
Expert of Me and Temple Uni
Speaker Bio
Isabella Ramirez de Arellano (she/her) is a Disabled German-Boricua activist and researcher focusing her work through an anti-imperial disability justice lens. Through her lived experience and formal education in Psychology (B.A.), Disability Studies, Public Health and Media Studies & Production (M.A), Isabella founded her own collective, named Expert Of Me – where self-expertise meets collective liberation. She expands this work by becoming an organizing member of the Diaspora Pa’lante Collective, a Puerto Rican diaspora and allies organization for a liberated Borikén. Isabella also serves as a Global Disability Advisor for Billion Strong, a global disability organization emphasizing our lived experiences. Most recently, she has joined 7 Billion Presidents as part of their activist council. Throughout every project, Isabella Ramirez de Arellano centers “being the expert of me” with theory and analysis to create an actionable future made for the people by the people.
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