· By Ciermae Allen

Empathy Week: Meet Jana

Jana is an artist and the curator of Dear Disability’, a project dedicated to fostering openness and acceptance around people with disabilities and their experience. Jana experiences a learning disability herself and aims to advocate for people with disabilities and artists with disabilities by displaying portraits and letters of diverse individuals who are willing to be vulnerable and authentic with their life stories. Jana’s exhibit was featured in Empathy Week 2017.