VidCon Anaheim

Tiffany Yu is the CEO & Founder of Diversability, an award-winning entirely disabled-run and led social enterprise to elevate disability pride, and a content creator with 200k+ followers across platforms. She is a 3x TEDx speaker and has been named a TikTok API (Asian & Pacific Islander) Trailblazer, a LinkedIn Top Voice in Disability Advocacy, and a Well+Good Changemaker. Her first book, The Anti-Ableist Manifesto, will be published by Hachette Go in Fall 2024.

Tiffany has helped to invest over $170,000 in disability initiatives through the Awesome Foundation Disability Chapter and the Disability Empowerment Endowed Fund at Georgetown University. She has been featured in Marie Claire, the Guardian, and Forbes. She started her career in investment banking at Goldman Sachs and has also worked at Bloomberg and Sean Diddy Combs' REVOLT Media & TV. She earned a bachelor’s degree from Georgetown University and a master's from the London School of Economics. At the age of 9, Tiffany became disabled as a result of a car accident that also took the life of her father.

Creator Track

The Changing Faces of the Creator Economy

Location: Room 207CD

Friday, June 28

2:45 pm - 3:30 pm

Featuring: Avi Gandhi, Jerry Won, AyChristene and more

Just five years ago, the words "creator" and "influencer" conjured images of young, white, good-looking people producing vlogs, thirst traps, and gaming livestreams for similarly young audiences. Today, with 200 million creators globally and up to 35% of the US population involved in the creator economy, the faces of the creator economy have changed for the better — giving voice to the expertise, experiences, and interests of a broader spectrum of creators and consumers. In this panel, we talk to leading voices of underrepresented groups of creators to learn how the space is changing — for better or worse — and what creators can do to be successful both in spite of and because of their underrepresented backgrounds.

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