National Leadership Program, Fall 2022
Adina Faye Karten was a Policy Fellow in RespectAbility’s National Leadership Program for Fall 2022. RespectAbility is a nonprofit organization fighting stigmas and advancing opportunities so that people with disabilities can fully participate in all aspects of community.
Karten is a Poverty and Development Consultant who has been working in inclusion, health advocacy, and the development spheres for more than 6 years. During this time, she has written about policy, designed M&E frameworks, and implemented interventions targeted toward increasing access to health resources for the rural disabled population. As a researcher for UN ESCAP, she contributed to the publication of “Harmonization of National Laws with the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities: Selected Trends in the ESCAP Region.”
Karten believes that innovations made in resource-poor communities are often the most replicable, having noted local innovations toward inclusion outcomes in participant observation in India, England, Italy, and the United States. She holds a Master of Arts in Poverty and Development and a Bachelor of Arts in Anthropology and Sociology.