Nina G

Nina G visits colleges, schools, corporations, non-profits, and employee networks and workplace communities — including Employee Resource Groups (ERGs), affinity groups, and Disability & Accessibility Networks — across the United States, transforming audiences through humor, storytelling, and hands-on experiences. Whether it is her one-person show, conference keynotes, corporate trainings, professional workshops, or ERG programming, she smashes through stigma and changes outdated attitudes. Ask about tailored programming for your Disability ERG, employee network, or workplace community. The following is a menu of possible presentations.

Comedians with Disabilities Act
Content Themes: Humor, coping, building empathy, building comfort and community, intersectionality (race, gender and disability).
Target Audience: colleges, nonprofits, corporate events.
Description: Nina G has teamed up with professional comedians with other performers from the Comedians with Disabilities Act for in-person and Zoom shows. The troupe represents an intersection of cultural, gender and disability related experiences. Performance includes comedy and a Q & A with the audience that always serves up humor and insight!

Every Day Ally
Content Themes: Customer Service; challenging internal bias; etiquette; building community.
Target Audience: Corporate, non-profit, activism.
Description:
Through humor, storytelling and direct instruction, Nina G shares insights on what having a disability is really like and what non-disabled people can do to be authentic allies. Participants will deepen their understanding of what disability means, how to best serve individuals with disabilities in the role that participants play and how to generally be an ally. Topics include humility, empathy building and how to join with the Disabled community. This presentation can be tailored to the audience to achieve outcomes such as elevating customer service for everyone, collaboration between communities and clinical skills.

Night Club Act
Content Themes: Discrimination; Disability pride; gender; ethnicity.
Target Audience: Over 18/Adult-oriented material (i.e. naughty words)
Description: Nina G’s comedy is consistently in demand in the San Francisco Bay Area, across the United States and even three times in Ireland. The spirit and themes of her keynotes is interpreted through her comedy club act that has been vetted through open mics, showcases, feature and headlining spots. Nina has performed in every venue imaginable from dive bars, sporting good stores and laundromats to comedy clubs like the San Francisco & Sacramento Punch Line, NY's Gotham and LA’s Laugh Factory. She has performed alongside headliners that include Dave Chappelle, Geri Jewel, Danny Woodburn, Mort Sahl, Larry "Bubbles" Brown, .

Stutterer Interrupted
Content Themes: Acceptance; developing voice; overcoming internalized stigma.
Target Audience: Can be modified as a one-person show or a keynote. Perfect for non-profit organization fundraisers, conferences and college shows.
Description: Stutterer Interrupted explores what it’s like to be a stuttering woman in a non-stuttering world. How does it feel when people constantly try to finish your sentences? When they ask if you forgot your own name? How do you go from twenty years of hiding your voice to performing on stage every night? These are some of the questions that Nina addresses in her show.

From Keynotes to Comedy!
“Nina G, more than just a comedian!”—-University of Virginia
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Nina G visits colleges, schools, corporations, non-profits, and employee networks and workplace communities — including Employee Resource Groups (ERGs), affinity groups, and Disability & Accessibility Networks — across the United States, transforming audiences through humor, storytelling, and hands-on experiences. Whether it is her one-person show, conference keynotes, corporate trainings, professional workshops, or ERG programming, she smashes through stigma and changes outdated attitudes. Ask about tailored programming for your Disability ERG, employee network, or workplace community. The following is a menu of possible presentations. See below for testimonials!
All services are offered in-person and/or online!

Every Day Ally
Content Themes: Customer Service; challenging internal bias; etiquette; building community.
Target Audience: Corporate, non-profit, activism.
Description:
Through humor, storytelling and direct instruction, Nina G shares insights on what having a disability is really like and what non-disabled people can do to be authentic allies. Participants will deepen their understanding of what disability means, how to best serve individuals with disabilities in the role that participants play and how to generally be an ally. Topics include humility, empathy building and how to join with the Disabled community. This presentation can be tailored to the audience to achieve outcomes such as elevating customer service for everyone, collaboration between communities and clinical skills.
Past clients include: MGM Grand, San Jose State University, Tedx Talk​
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Comedians with Disabilities Act
Content Themes: Humor, coping, building empathy, building comfort and community, intersectionality (race, gender and disability).
Target Audience: colleges, nonprofits, corporate events.
Description: Nina G has teamed up with professional comedians with other performers from the Comedians with Disabilities Act for in-person and Zoom shows. The troupe represents an intersection of cultural, gender and disability related experiences. Performance includes comedy and a Q & A with the audience that always serves up humor and insight!
Past clients include: West Virginia University, University of Minnesota, Disability Pride PA, Harvard University
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Stutterer Interrupted
Content Themes: Acceptance; developing voice; overcoming internalized stigma.
Target Audience: Can be modified as a one-person show or a keynote. Perfect for non-profit organization fundraisers, conferences and college shows.
Description: Stutterer Interrupted explores what it’s like to be a stuttering woman in a non-stuttering world. How does it feel when people constantly try to finish your sentences? When they ask if you forgot your own name? How do you go from twenty years of hiding your voice to performing on stage every night? These are some of the questions that Nina addresses in her show.
Past clients include: Coca-Cola, Tedx Talk at Los Medanos College, Hearing, Speech & Deaf Center, Solo Sundays, SUNY Broome
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Going Beyond Inspirational
Content Themes: Disability affirmation; Disability experience; motivational for teachers, parents and helping professionals; stigma; advocacy.
Target Audience: Can be modified as a one-person show or a keynote. Perfect for non-profit organization fundraisers, conferences and college shows.
Description: "How many people with Disabilities does it take to screw in a lightbulb?" Answer: "One to screw it in and 5 able-bodied people to say, 'you are such an inspiration!'"
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This joke is a favorite in Nina G's stand-up comedy routine. It brings to light (no pun intended) the struggle that people with Disabilities contend with living in an able-bodied society that reduces them to images of "inspirations" who “overcome” as opposed to normalization. Nina challenges perceptions about Disability in her appropriately titled show, Going Beyond Inspirational. Going Beyond Inspirational deals with the pain, joys, and revelations growing up with Speech and Learning Disabilities.

The Dyslexic Shuffle: Deepening Your Understanding of Dyslexia
Content Themes: Building empathy and self-empowerment through real understanding
Target Audience: Education (all levels and professions), corporate, non-profit, elementary to high school students.
Description:
Dyslexia is a prevalent learning disability, impacting approximately 20% of the population. Despite its widespread occurrence, it remains largely misunderstood. This presentation aims to demystify dyslexia by exploring its biological underpinnings engagingly and interactively.
The core of the presentation will delve into the neuroscience behind dyslexia, elucidating how variations in brain structure and function can influence learning processes. By employing a lively and accessible approach, Nina transforms complex scientific concepts into relatable experiences, helping attendees to gain a deeper understanding of dyslexia.
Attendees should anticipate active participation in this dynamic presentation. The session will incorporate various interactive elements, including the potential for attendees to be part of an interpretive dance, to illustrate the impacts of dyslexia on learning. This unique approach promises to educate and entertain, challenging preconceived notions about dyslexia and fostering a more comprehensive understanding of this common learning disability. Learn about dyslexia from someone who knows it from the inside out!

Nina G is a stand-up comedian, author, professional speaker, and disability advocate based in the San Francisco Bay Area. Known as one of the only stuttering female comedians working in stand-up when she began, she has spent over a decade building a career and a movement that reframes disability as a source of culture, humor, and community rather than tragedy or inspiration. She is lead producer (since 2016) of the touring comedy troupe Comedians with Disabilities Act (member since 2011), the author of three books, a contributor to multiple academic and literary anthologies, and a nationally recognized speaker who has brought disability-forward comedy to colleges, corporations, and conferences across the country. Nina holds a doctorate and works professionally as a disability services counselor at a California community college.

Flexible based on venue.