- Speaker, Writer, and Cultural Inclusion and Accessibility Consultant
Dennis Tran
Dennis Tran (he/him) is a queer, partially blind, disabled, and late-identified autistic-ADHD Vietnamese American storyteller living life with glaucoma, chronic conditions, and C-PTSD, who grew up in a low-income household. He is an award-winning mental health, disability, and neurodiversity advocate and multihyphenate storyteller, who work span public speaking, journalism, filmmaking, the arts, and cultural and inclusion consulting. Dennis is working as a Fox Family Foundation Sr. Fellow and has worked and served as Director of Partnerships at the Asian Americans with Disabilities Initiative (AADI), and Marketing Specialist at the Autism Society of America. His work has been featured in Business Insider, Jubilee Media, The Mighty, and SHRM, and he has consulted on disability authenticity for Blue’s Clues & You!, created national resource toolkits, curricula, and spoken at institutions such as UCLA, UCSF, Autodesk, and Sony Pictures to advance disability justice, neurodiversity, and authentic AANHPI representation and community care. Areas focus: Cultural & racial lens through AANHPI experiences, late autism and adhd and neurodiversity. Low vision & blindness (physical & sensory, and non apparent disabilities), IDD health advocacy, universal design , digital health, mental health, lived experiences, and youth advocacy.