Morénike Giwa Onaiwu

Advisor at Uptimize

Morénike, PhD(c), MA focuses on meaningful community involvement and leadership, disability, racial, and gender equity, dismantling stigma, and inclusion and empowerment, often drawing from personal background as a person of color in a neurodiverse and serodifferent family, and a late-diagnosed adult on the autism spectrum. Morénike has been an invited speaker in the White House, at the United Nations Headquarters, a keynote speaker and/or presenter at numerous conferences, and provides diversity, research, and disability consulting to several organizations. Morénike is currently a Humanities Scholar at Rice University and a doctoral candidate in education, has been published and will release an edited collection on neurodiversity in the Black community in 2022.