Xian Horn is a joyful half-Asian woman with Cerebral Palsy, who serves as founder of the non-profit, Give Beauty Wings and consultancy Changeblazer. She is an advocate, speaker, blogger, and Exemplar for the AT&T NYU Connect Ability Challenge in the creation of Assistive Technology. Xian was named Women’s eNews’ 21 Leaders for the 21st Century in 2017 and in Walker’s Legacy Power 15 in 2018. Give Beauty Wings’ Self-Esteem programs began and continue at NYU’s Initiative for Women with Disabilities, the Marlene Meyerson JCC Manhattan, and M.S. 131. She is a freelance journalist at ForbesWomen and Arianna Huffington’s Thrive Global.

Xian has spoken at the U.N., The Harkin Summit, Microsoft, Apple, Viacom, AppNexus, New York Life, Met Life, for the New York Public Library, Barnard College, Williams College, the ReelAbilities film festival (where she serves on the Film Selection Committee). In 2018, Xian was invited to join the Smithsonian Design museum Cooper Hewitt’s Accessibility Advisory Committee and AT&T’s Accessibility Advisory Panel. She has advised with Open Style Lab at Parsons since they designed for her needs in 2016. She is proud member of ReelAbilities Film Selection Committee and has mentored at Lights! Camera! Access!, run workshops for Intimacy Coordinators on Disability Inclusivity and Representation, and has served on panels for the Casting Society of America.

Xian has also run vocational workshops for the NYC Mayor’s Office for People with Disabilities for Disability Mentoring Day. Xian has been on the State Department’s Speaker’s Bureau since 2016. Xian has been featured in The White House Blog’s Women Working To Do Good series, NPR, Forbes, Fortune, Fast Company, Bloomberg News, NBC News, Fox 5 and NY1 among others. Finally,  in addition to writing for Thrive Global, she is a blogger for Positively Positive – a community of over 2.5 million readers and a contributor at ForbesWomen in the area of Leadership, Empowerment, and Disability.