Anita Raghavan
Anita Raghavan, PhD, was introduced to the disability field at 8 years old. She was fortunate enough to have a fellow student and friend with IDD throughout all those formative years. She studied and worked as an Elementary Education teacher and then expanded into Communication Studies (briefly working for an international airline.) She had worked primarily in health communication within fragile populations. Her internships were at the UN and UNICEF. Over the course of her career Anita has formulated and implemented diverse multimedia Health Communication content on IDD, messaging about IDD, HIV, foster care, smoking cessation, abused children, incarcerated children, childhood food security, intercultural communication, cultural health issues, aging, arts and holistic therapy, childhood poverty, mental health issues, and environmental education. She is the mother of her 3 children, one with Down syndrome and 2 stepchildren, one with autism.
Anita Raghavan, PhD, was introduced to the disability field at 8 years old. She was fortunate enough to have a fellow student and friend with IDD throughout all those formative years. She studied and worked as an Elementary Education teacher and then expanded into Communication Studies (briefly working for an international airline.) She had worked primarily in health communication within fragile populations. Her internships were at the UN and UNICEF. Over the course of her career Anita has formulated and implemented diverse multimedia Health Communication content on IDD, messaging about IDD, HIV, foster care, smoking cessation, abused children, incarcerated children, childhood food security, intercultural communication, cultural health issues, aging, arts and holistic therapy, childhood poverty, mental health issues, and environmental education. She is the mother of her 3 children, one with Down syndrome and 2 stepchildren, one with autism.
