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Cara Elizabeth Yar Khan is an entrepreneurial humanitarian and ♿️disability advocate who has had an invigorating career, spanning ten countries, so far. In 2001, Cara embarked on her international travels to work in 🇪🇨Ecuador with the 🇺🇳United Nations World Food Programme then in 🇵🇦 Panama with Dell Inc. Her many years with the 🇺🇳United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF) started in Private Sector Partnerships in 🇦🇴🇨🇳🇲🇬🇲🇿🇹🇭.When she also took on the role of disability focal point during the Earthquake Emergency Recovery Operation in 🇭🇹Haiti it launched a successful public speaking career which brought her to the 🇺🇸 USA. To accompany her masters degree from Johns Hopkins University, School of Advanced International Studies in 🇮🇹Italy. Cara is gifted in languages, fluent in Spanish, conversational in basic Mandarin Chinese and has working knowledge of French and Portguese. Born in 🇮🇳India and raised in 🇨🇦Canada in a multi-ethnic family of Indian Muslim, 🇬🇧British Anglican and 🇨🇳Chinese Buddhist immigrants. At the age of 30, Cara was diagnosed with a rare 💪🏾muscle wasting disease, a genetic condition called🧬 HIBM that leads to quadriplegia. 👩🏻‍🦼Since then she has used her platform to break glass ceilings. As part of her advocacy work, she is also producing a 🎬documentary film with the legendary Sam Pollard and writing her first 📇📝memoir with Carol Mann Agency. Today Cara lives in 🇺🇸New York with and Southern 🐈‍⬛ fur baby, Bubba.❤️