Dr. Jhah Anabirae

Disabled · Neuroscientist · Educator · Poet · Speaker · Disability advocate

I'm a disabled disability advocate who brings together scientific expertise, educational practice, advocacy, creativity, and lived experience — to examine how disabled people move through systems, where those systems fail us, and what meaningful access actually requires.

Work with me About me

Credentials

  • Master of Philosophy in Neuroscience, Yale University
  • Doctor of Philosophy in Neuroscience, Yale University

Currently pursuing

  • MBA candidate
  • Board Certified Patient Advocate candidate
  • 2e Education Certificate candidate
Dr. Jhah Anabirae crouching in a pink dress, chin resting on her hand, looking into the camera.

Disability is the thread connecting all of it

I center disability across everything that I do. Not because disability is all that I am, but because there is no part of me it has not touched.

It shapes the questions I ask. The systems I scrutinize. The people I advocate alongside. The stories I tell. The work I choose to leave in this world.

I am interested in what happens when disabled people are allowed to exist beyond the narrow roles society often assigns us. That perspective shapes everything I do, whether I am teaching, advocating, speaking, consulting, writing, or simply existing.

  • Disabled and accomplished.
  • Disabled and creative.
  • Disabled and intellectually rigorous.
  • Disabled and ambitious.
  • Disabled and ordinary.
  • Disabled and extra ordinary.
  • None of those identities cancel the others out. They can coexist all at once, in any combination, or not at all…

I specialize in the people systems misread

  • The disabled person

    Mistaken for incapable.

  • The gifted person

    Mistaken for fine.

  • The neurodivergent person

    Expected to adapt to environments that were never designed to understand them.

Finding what gets missed.

My expertise is in finding what gets missed, naming what gets misunderstood, and making complexity impossible to ignore.

Seeing the unseen.

I believe in seeing the unseen, and taking the time to actually see them and truly understand them. I am relentless. Even when things become difficult, inconvenient, or uncomfortable, I stay with them.

Kind, not just nice.

I do not strive to be nice. I am, and actively strive to be, kind. Niceness often asks us to protect comfort; kindness often requires honesty, confrontation, and actually caring enough to say or do what is necessary, even when it is uncomfortable.

Ways we can work together

Every engagement is shaped around what you actually need.

  • One-on-One Consulting

    Personalized support for disabled people navigating complex systems.

    • Healthcare & higher education
    • Accommodations & disability services
    • Institutional processes
    • Self-advocacy strategies

  • Speaking Engagements & Panels

    Thoughtful, engaging talks and conversations on disability, education, and lived experience.

    • Disability & neurodiversity
    • Education & accessibility
    • Twice-exceptionality
    • Lived experience
    • Custom topics and formats

  • Disability Advocacy Consulting

    Strategic support for organizations, programs, and initiatives.

    • Disability inclusion
    • Accessibility & representation
    • Program development
    • Policy and systems change
    • Lived experience insight

  • Educational & Accessibility Consulting

    Support for students and learners navigating disability, neurodiversity, giftedness, and academic systems.

    • Disability & neurodiversity
    • Giftedness & twice-exceptionality
    • Creativity & unique learning needs
    • Accessibility & accommodations
    • Academic navigation

  • Scientific Consulting

    Bridge research and real-world impact through clear, accessible communication.

    • Research interpretation
    • Literature review
    • Evidence synthesis
    • Neuroscience consulting
    • Presentations, posters, slides & abstracts
    • Translating complex science

  • Workshops & Educational Programming

    Customized learning experiences for schools, colleges, organizations, and community groups.

    • Disability visibility & accessibility
    • Self-advocacy & neurodiversity
    • Twice-exceptionality
    • Disability in STEM
    • Navigating institutional systems
    • Disability-centered organizational strategy

Four degrees by twenty-five

  1. Age16

    I started college full-time while homeless.

  2. Age17

    I transferred to Mississippi Valley State University and earned two Bachelor of Science degrees — Biology and Chemistry.

  3. Age20

    I began doctoral training in neuroscience at Yale School of Medicine.

  4. Age25

    Completed my PhD in Neuroscience in under five years.

Across my academic and scientific career I have received national recognition as a neuroscientist, secured multiple sources of research funding, presented my work at scientific conferences domestically and internationally, and received numerous research, fellowship, and presentation awards.

Curriculum vitae Résumé

I reject the idea that achievement stands opposite disability. That expertise, creativity, beauty, authority, ambition, or complexity somehow become less possible once disability enters the room.

I have no interest in turning pain into inspiration so that other people can feel better about witnessing it. What interests me is much simpler, and much more radical:

What becomes possible when disabled people are allowed to
just exist… as we are.

Let's build something meaningful

For consulting, speaking, workshops, or collaboration, email directly. Tell me what you're working on and what you need.

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