About Denise

Author and educator Denise Sherer Jacobson, M.A., is passionate about  “Weaving the Disability Experience into the Tapestry of Living.” She has worked as an activist, counselor, administrator, and oral historian in the Independent Living Movement for over 50 years, all the while keeping her sense of humor. 

Sherer Jacobson penned the multi-layered memoir, THE QUESTION OF DAVID: A Disabled Mother’s Journey Through Adoption, Family, and Life, as well as a plethora of disability and Jewish-themed blogs, articles, stories, and poetry published on websites and in newspapers, magazines, and anthologies. 

Sherer Jacobson is a featured personality and the story consultant for the acclaimed 2020 Netflix documentary CRIP CAMP: A Disability Revolution, produced by Barack and Michelle Obama’s company, Higher Ground. 

In 2020, Sherer Jacobson was the Landauer Lecturer at Columbia University Irving Medical Center co-speaker and published the guest blog ‘Time to Speak’ on their Weinberg Family Cerebral Palsy Center website. 

She served as a panelist for the Ford Foundation’s Disability Futures virtual festival that explored the lives and work of disabled artists. Presently she continues to lecture at top medical schools around the country including UCSF, UC Berkeley and Joint Kaiser Permanente & UCSF Santa Rosa Family Medicine, teaching Disability Justice & Advocacy for medical students and residents.

Currently she is searching for a publisher for her new book, MY CAMP JENED SUMMER: A Tale of Love, Heartbreak, and Belonging.

She continues to given presentations on disability-related issues both nationally and worldwide.