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Featured Speaking Engagements, Media, & Publications
Keynote & Speaking Engagements
N-Able Berg — The Audacity of Difference | Nov. 2025
Harvard University – THE THROUGH LINE: FROM CLASSROOM ABLEISM TO LIFELONG IMPACT | Aug. 2025
NYU – Innovation Without Barriers: Engineering a More Inclusive World | Feb. 2025
Black Women’s Roundtable on Disability & Chronic Illness w/ Rep. Ayanna Pressley | Jul. 2020
University of Washington – Presenter | Nov. 2020
NYU Steinhardt GSO Panel – Diversity in the Workplace | Apr. 2017
Media Features & Interviews
UFT News – Breaking Barriers in the Bronx | 06/2023 Link
New Mobility – Wheelchair-Using Teachers Give the Next Generation a More Accurate View of Disability | 05/2023 Link
Christopher & Dana Reeve Foundation Blog – Disabled Women Make History: Dayniah Manderson | 02/2023 Link
Embrace It Podcast: Episode 30 – The Miseducation of Inclusion | 04/08/2022 Link
THIRTEEN – LESSON LEARNED: A Conversation With K-12 Teachers About Mental Health | 05/05/2022 Link
BX Times – Bronx Middle School Teacher Wins Suit Against DOE for ADA Accommodations | 12/15/2021 Link
New York Daily News – Bronx Teacher Files Discrimination Complaint Against NYC Education Dept. | 06/15/2020 Link
USA Today – Does My Wheelchair Make You Uncomfortable? How My Disability May Have Cost Me a Job | 10/18/2018 Link
Disability Visibility Podcast w/ Alice Wong | 11/2019 Link
Muscular Dystrophy Association – From Apples to Advocacy: Teacher Dayniah Manderson Embraces Her Role as Ms. Wheelchair NY 2017 | 06/30/2017 Link
News 12 The Bronx – Bronx Woman Named Ms. Wheelchair NY 2017 | 12/28/2017 Link
WCBS 880 Interview – 50 People to Know: Ms. Wheelchair NY 2017 | 03/27/2017 Link
NYU Alumni Feature – Advice to New Graduates | 05/09/2017 Link
Christopher & Dana Reeve Foundation Blog – Evolving From Self-Hatred to Self-Love | Date N/A Link
Crip Camp Conversation w/ Dr. Jill Biden – Clips and Conversation: 2020 Election & Disability Advocacy | 10/02/2020
New York Times – Bent, Not Broken | 04/30/2010 Link
New York Times Video – A Life of Determination and Dependence | 04/30/2010 Link