"Morénike exemplifies what it means to be a leader because of her bravery, compassion, and dedication to making the world a better place for the multicultural disability community. I have no doubt that Morénike will carry on inspiring and leading with the same bravery, compassion, and commitment that have characterized her work thus far."

Biography

Dr. Morénike Giwa Onaiwu, PhD (she/they) is a global human rights, neurodiversity, and disability justice leader and transdisciplinary activist-scholar. Dr. Giwa Onaiwu is also a neurodivergent, multiply disabled author, educator, and proud parent in a neurodiverse, multicultural, twice-exceptional serodifferent biological and adoptive family. A prolific writer and content expert with lived and learned expertise whose multimodal work focuses on participatory research, meaningful community involvement, intersectionality, and accessibility, Dr. Giwa Onaiwu serves as Founder/Principal Operator of Advocacy Without Borders, a grassroots nonprofit initiative, and as a Research Fellow within the Life Course Outcomes division at Drexel University’s AJ Drexel Autism Institute, which is the first public health-focused autism research center in the United States.