Biography
Presenting Mentorship: A Proactive Approach to Disability-Specific Career Services
Yardena Gerwin serves as a Community Engagement Specialist for Lime Connect connecting disabled university students and professionals to leadership and career opportunites. As a 2023 Gates Cambridge Scholar, Yardena earned her master’s in Health, Medicine, and Society from the University of Cambridge. Her research focused on mentoring as a form of workforce preparedness for disabled university students. She served as a disability policy fellow on the Senate Health, Education, Pensions and Labor Committee. At Middlebury College, Yardena designed her own major in disability studies and social detriments of health.