Tiffany Yu is a social impact entrepreneur and community builder.^[1]She is the CEO & Founder of Diversability, an award-winning social enterprise to rebrand disability through the power of community.

She is also the Founder of the Awesome Foundation Disability Chapter, a monthly micro-grant for disability projects that has awarded $22,500 to 23 projects in 6 countries.

She also serves on the Leadership Committee to plan for San Francisco's first Disability Cultural Center.^[6]

In 1997, when she was 9 years old, Tiffany Yu got into a car accident.

As a result, she has brachial plexus palsy (nerve damage) in her right arm.^[2]

Yu received her Bachelor's degree in Finance & Accounting from Georgetown University.

She later earned her Master's degree from the London School of Economics & Political Science.^[0]

In addition, Yu was the recipient of a full scholarship for the New York Code + Design Academy's full-time web development program.

While there, she became a full-stack web developer with JavaScript; she also worked with Squarespace and WordPress.^[0]

Tiffany started her career in investment banking at Goldman Sachs , working on over $14 billion of announced transactions.

She has been a member of the World Economic Forum Global Shapers Community since 2015.

She was also the Director of Business Development for Sean "Diddy" Combs'Revolt TV.^[0]

In 2009, Tiffany founded Diversability, a social movement that fosters communities to rebrand disability by encouraging people to connect, showcase, and think critically about disability as a core part of the diversity conversation.^[12]Founding it while she was in her senior year at Georgetown, Yu won the 2009 Reimagine Georgetown Grant as a result of the creating the movement.

Diversability's community grew to almost 400 members through 2014.^[0]

Yu re-launched the brand 2015 and has since held the title of CEO.^[0]

She founding the company, Yu has been featured in *Marie Claire *, ^[3] *The Guardian *, ^[4] the The Wall Street Journal, and Forbes , ^[5] and has spoken at the World Economic Forum Annual Meeting in Davos and Stanford University .^[6]

In 2018, she gave her first TED Talk entitled, "The Power of Exclusion."

In it, she explains what can be the most challenging aspect of disability, and how it's propelled her into a life of community building.^[-1]In 2019, she gave her second TED Talk, "The Truths About Being A Pioneer."

Tiffany Yu has been named one of the "100 most influential Asian Americans of 2017," one of the National Disability Mentoring Coalition's Hall of Fame (2018), ^[13]and a "women of influence" honoree.