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Can I Get Your Autograph? A Look at the Influencers Coming to the 2025 TravelAbility Summit

October 6, 2025 by lkarl

Taylor Leigh Aguilar

@BlindEagleProductions

Filmmaker

Colorado-based production company founded by Taylor Leigh Aguilar. Film with a new kind of vision.

Total followers across platforms: 2,054

Jennifer Allen

@WondersWithinReach 

Writer and Content Creator

Disability mom ✈️ Wheelchair travel

Sharing our journey to help others in theirs

💜 Jesus, adoption, and inclusion

Total followers across platforms: 25,000

Chelsea Bear

@RealChelseaBear

Digital creator

✨ sharing Cerebral Palsy through my lens

Total followers across platforms: 700,000

Rosie Dunn

@RosieRoaming

Wheelchair Travel Tips

✈️ navigating life & travel on wheels

🗺️ 20 countries, 39 states & counting

Total followers across platforms: 3,900

Kristy Durso

@KristyGoes

Entrepreneur

Keynote speaker, mom to 3 kids, military wife, wheelchair user, travel lover, disability advocate/consultant, owner Incredible Memories Travel

Total followers across platforms: 2,000

Anthony Ferraro

@asfvision

Blind Filmmaker and Paralympian

🎥 A Shot in the Dark

🥋 Para Judo 🛹Skateboard

🎙 Pod @fourbadeyes

🎶 Musician 🎤 Speaker

Total followers across platforms: 3,200,000

Suellen Henneberry

 @SueEllenHenneberry

Athlete

Spartan Race, Adaptive Amputee

Total followers across platforms: 400

John Morris

@WheelchairTravel

Blogger

Follow along as I travel the world with one hand, a passport and my power wheelchair. World’s largest accessible travel website. ♿️ ✈️ 🌎

Total followers across platforms: 50,000

Candy Harrington

EmergingHorizons.com

Travel Publication for Wheelchair-Users and Slow Walkers

Total followers across platforms: 20,000

Jessica Ping

@TheRollingExplorer

Public Figure

👑 Loud Disabled Feminist

📍Chicago

🎶 @jessicajordanping

🎙️ @accessdeniedpod

☕️ #AccessibiliTEA

Total followers across platforms: 209,000

Mandy Salas

@ImMandySalas

Motivational Speaker

Resilience Advocate, Quadriplegic Mom, Upcoming Author

Sharing my story of determination, grit, and mental strength to inspire others 🌟 🌱 💪

Total followers across platforms: 5,000

Amy Tarpein

@ElijahsBabyBucketList

Writer and Content Creator

✈️Travel Writer 🎗Lissencephaly Family

Sharing our journey to encourage others

and share Elijah’s joy with the world!

Total followers across platforms: 400,000

Ian Ruder

@NewMobilityMagazine 

Editor-In-Chief

I work to ensure the the voice of people with mobility-related disabilities is authentically represented in all of our content

Total followers across platforms: 305,000

Houston Vandergriff

A smiling man with glasses wearing an orange jacket holds a black camera while standing on a city street. Behind him is a blurred urban scene with historic brick buildings, parked cars, and a typical downtown streetscape.

@DownsAndTowns

Travel Photographer

ART. ADVENTURE. ADVOCACY.

Photographer with Down syndrome traveling the world | Nikon Creator | GAMUT Talent

Total followers across platforms: 700,000

Katie Vandergriff

 Katie Vandergriff in a close-up portrait with short, layered dark brown hair with highlights, wearing silver hoop earrings and smiling warmly at the camera.

@DownsAndTowns

Disability Mom, Public Speaker, and Advocate

Alice Diehl

Alice Diehl wearing a silver crown and a purple sash reading 'Wheelchair Queen,' seated in an ornate chair against a purple backdrop, wearing a white sequined top.

Artist

Advocate

Actor @kelloinclusive @allhearttalent

Ms. Wheelchair Oregon 2025 2nd runner up 🏆@ms_wheelchair_america comp

Total followers across platforms: 2,900

Julie Jones

Julie Jones standing behind a man in a wheelchair who is wearing a red and blue baseball-style shirt; Julie wears a purple top with a red scarf and has her hand on his shoulder, both smiling at the camera

@TWLMag and @HaveWheelchairWillTravel

Writer and Content Creator

✈️ Travelling with a wheelchair. 📸. Sharing accessible tips and 🏖. Family travel ideas

Total followers across platforms: 19,500

Phoenyx Powell

Phoenyx Powell seated on an airplane seat, wearing a black leather jacket with blonde highlights in dark hair, looking off to the side.

@PhoenyxTravels

Blogger

Travel doesn’t have to be perfect — just possible.

Solo + accessible travel tips from lived experience

Total followers across platforms: 900

Tiffany Rose

Tiffany Rose is seated in a manual wheelchair at an outdoor event under tents, wearing a gray jacket and baseball cap with floral-patterned pants, as volunteers work around her in rainy conditions.

@TiffsChariot

Travel Service

Help create positive disability awareness and showing off travel accessibility for ALL

Blogger | Friedreich’s Ataxia Fighter | Wheelchair Adventurer♿️

Total followers across platforms: 7,600

📈Combined Total Reach of all Creators: 5,653,200

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