Empowering Our Gifts and Strengthening Community
Fostering one of a kind events and never-before-had discussions, empowering the Disability Community, and welcoming anyone whose felt like an outsider.
Give Beauty Wings offers programs for all ages that are tailored to individual and organizational needs. We encourage the universal beauty of everyone and the individual gifts and full potential of every participant!
100+
Organizations Impacted
250+
Workshops Planned
25,000+
Students Served
Let’s get into
What We Do
Since its inception in 2011, the nonprofit Give Beauty Wings has evolved to host innovative events and workshops in conjunction with schools, corporations, and governments emphasizing leadership to traditionally marginalized social groups such as low-income individuals, women, people of color, and people with disabilities.
We offer:
- Community Events and Discussions
- Corporate Consulting and Speaking
- Self-Esteem Courses and Mentorship
- Workshops: Employment, Arts, Beauty, Fashion, Assistive Technologies, Staff Training, and more!
Moderated by founder Xian Horn, special guest speakers, and field experts, Give Beauty Wings Workshops focus on discussions and hands-on activities to rethink and examine culture, judgment, perfection, ability, disability, authenticity, gifts, career, and life purpose.
Our Events
In 2019, Give Beauty Wings hosted its inaugural event: a storytelling celebration featuring seven speakers with disabilities called “Finding Your Superpower,” for roughly 200 attendees. This was made possible with the support of Xandr, Goldman-Sachs, Accessible Dispatch, and generous individual donors.
Give Beauty Wings has continued to serve its community with in-person and virtual workshops around fashion, beauty, financial literacy, disability representation, and self-esteem.
Recent Events Include:
Our Partners
Give Beauty Wings has presented workshops at United Cerebral Palsy, the Center for the Independence of the Disabled NY, the NYC Mayor’s Office for People with Disabilities, M.S. 131 in Chinatown, the Jewish Community Center Manhattan, the Thomas Jefferson School in Missouri, the Lower East Side Girls Club, the Standing Tall school (a school for non-verbal children), the Governor’s Council for People with Disabilities in Indiana, and at the New York City Lab School, where she served as its commencement speaker in 2014.
Current Partners:
Wandercraft, ReelAbilities Film Festival, New York Tech Alliance, Civic Hall
Past Partners and Collaborators:
EY, Estée Lauder, NBCU, NYC Mayor’s Office for People with Disabilities, Goldman-Sachs, Xandr, NYU, State of Indiana, Accessible Dispatch, Zappos, AT&T, Target, Amazon, Rami Beauty, Guide Beauty
Product Donors and Sponsors:
SONY, Tilt Beauty, NBCU, Estée Lauder, Artists and Craftsman Supply
Support People with Disabilities
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Get Involved
Give Beauty Wings is always looking to partner with organizations and individual passionate about the empowerment of all marginalized groups, especially those improving the lives of people with disabilities!
We’d love to hear your ideas and find ways to collaborate.
“Xian is a gifted teacher who knows how to create the best learning experience. She brings out the best in others by leading with infectious positivity, authenticity, and empathy. Her words continue to inspire many.”
— — Dr. Yumi Shimabukuro, Director, Urban & Social Policy Program. Faculty, Columbia University
A Story About Disability and Real Beauty
After witnessing many of her incredibly talented friends struggle with self-esteem, body image, and depression, especially those with disabilities, Give Beauty Wings Founder Xian Horn set out to reshape beauty standards, especially through the beauty industry. Her first step in advocacy was pitching Dove for the Real Beauty campaign to include women with disabilities.
Xian’s Dove Love letter to all unrepresented beauties, especially those with disabilities: hungry for positivity and a voice in the beauty industry campaign proposal video, which went semi-viral in late 2010. The video has more than garnered 25,000 views and counting.
Since then, Xian began leading a self-esteem course through NYU’s Initiative for Women with Disabilities, which later evolved into a non-profit providing workshops and events for more organizations.
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New York, NY
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