Adjunct Assistant Professor
Dr. Hawa Allarakhia is an educator, researcher, grant writer, and disability advocate whose work focuses on accessibility, disability inclusion, higher education, and student success. She currently serves as a Grant Writer for the Center for Partnerships in Arts-Integrated Teaching (PAInT) at the University of South Florida, where she directs a multimillion-dollar grant proposal portfolio that includes federal, foundation, humanities, and philanthropic initiatives supporting educational innovation, arts integration, literacy, artificial intelligence, and community engagement. She also serves as an Adjunct Faculty member in the Department of Disability Studies at the City University of New York and in the Department of Social Sciences at State College of Florida, Sarasota-Manatee, where she teaches courses on inclusive design, disability, and student success.