Cara E. Yar Khan

Speaker Cara E. Yar Khan is a motivational keynote speaker raising awareness about disability rights and helping audience members create a more courageous lifestyle. For 12 years, Cara worked for UNICEF and the UN World Food Program; and she now educates through experience and storytelling to motivate individuals to reach their fullest potential. Born in India, raised in Canada, and educated in Italy,  speaker Cara E. Yar Khan has always loved helping people in need, being with loved ones, traveling the world, and Latin dancing. Interested in languages and curious about different cultures,  Yar Khan earned a Master’s degree in public policy and has lived in several different countries: Ecuador, Panama, Angola, China, Madagascar, Mozambique, Thailand, and Haiti. At the age of thirty, she was diagnosed with a rare muscle-wasting disease.

Nonetheless, she still carries out a busy program, living an active life, ignoring the barriers and low expectations society has of people with disabilities. After a year with the International Human Trafficking Institute, an initiative of the National Center for Civil and Human Rights in Atlanta, Cara produces her feature documentary film, which she also owns, and is writing her first memoir with Carol Mann Agency.

Moreover, Yar Khan is the founder of her own consulting company, RISE, which supports nonprofits and corporations, strengthening their community’s impact by raising resources, reach, and results. In her own words:  An entrepreneurial humanitarian, disability advocate & motivational speaker dedicated to making our world more inclusive, accessible, equitable, and just. At the podium, and now remotely too, I love exploring the magic in finding the balance between courage and fear.