Rooshey Hasnain, EdD

Dr. Rooshey Hasnain is a clinical associate professor and community-engaged researcher with the UIC Department of Disability and Human Development, Institute on Disability and Human Development,  Undergraduate Rehabilitation Sciences Program, and Honors College. She also serves as a faculty mentor for the LEND Fellowship Program. For more than 25 years she has developed innovative and culturally tailored initiatives that focus on advancing disability justice with individuals, families, community providers, and systems across different life domains and sectors. Her disability-centered work involves research, academic curricula, multisector coalition building, career and workforce development activities, and grassroots organizing with partners and allies. Her development and implementation of disability-inclusive grants involving historically underserved immigrants and refugees with disabilities have garnered state- and national level recognition. Her interdisciplinary and collaborative work spans projects that emphasize disability advocacy, cultural brokering/cultural competency, consumer and family empowerment, participatory action research with immigrants and refugees and their families. She serves on multiple boards and in professional associations whose agendas are to advance disability inclusion, locally and globally