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Disability Inclusion: Required – Episode 27 – Tis The Season For Celebration

Sandy Ho, the Executive Director of the Disability and Philanthropy Forum, is interviewed about the disability community’s collective victories in 2025 and her hopes for the future

Our podcast theme music is by Andre Louis and Precious Perez. Thank you to Recording Artists And Music Professionals With Disabilities (RAMPD) for connecting these talented disabled musicians with the Disability & Philanthropy Forum.

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Featured Guest

Photo taken by Adrian O. Walker. Sandy Ho is sitting outside against a wall in a power wheelchair. She’s wearing a long sleeved white shirt, yellow pants, and brown shoes with a silver buckle. She has short dark wavy hair, and she is smiling at the camera.

Sandy Ho

Sandy Ho is the Executive Director of the Disability & Philanthropy Forum. Ho was most recently the program director of the Disability Inclusion Fund at Borealis Philanthropy where she led a grantmaking strategy of $4M for disabled-led organizations across the country. Prior to her role in philanthropy Sandy was a disability policy researcher, and comes to disability community organizing by way of mentoring for youth with disabilities. She was a member of the inaugural Obama Foundation USA Leaders cohort in 2023; and in 2022 Sandy was named a Disability Futures Fellow supported by Ford Foundation and The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation. Sandy received her Master’s in Public Policy from Brandeis University in 2023. She identifies as a disabled queer Asian American woman, and is an obnoxious Red Sox fan. In her spare time she enjoys birding, being an Auntie, and reading by Lake Merritt.