June 20, 2023

Opening New Doors with Dylan Rafaty

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Guest Profile

Dylan Rafaty’s personal mission is to increase opportunities by opening new doors so that everyone can have an overall better quality of life. He stops by to share his unique personal journey, being born with both significant hearing loss and early struggles with eating. Dylan’s formative school years weren’t much help. So, he learned to self-advocate and took matters into his own hands. Then wrote Occupy Special Education, Children Should be Seen and Heard, a book that chronicles his experience and helps school districts and educators better understand how to ensure students with special needs succeed. After countless volunteer and entrepreneurial ventures, Dylan will be starting the Doctor of Education program at the University of Southern California in a couple of months.

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Dylan Rafaty

Dylan M. Rafaty is an influencer and disability rights activist committed to serving all people
with disabilities in Texas and the United States. Because of his family roots, Dylan continues
to devote his love for cultural diversity in communities since birth and is deeply well-connected
across the globe due to his character, kindness, love for people, and passion.
His personal mission in life is to increase opportunities by opening new doors so that
everyone can have an overall better quality of life. Because of this, Dylan’s successes include
bringing in innovative ideas to the table, establishing strategic partnerships and building
alliances to create systemic change within communities and organizations.
Dylan is a vocal advocate for corporate social responsibility with an entrepreneurial and
growth mindset. He builds strong relationships while earning the respect and trust of our
citizens, duly elected leaders, regional business/nonprofit communities, and academic/
government agencies.
Some notable recognitions include being inducted into the Susan M. Daniels Disability
Mentoring Hall of Fame in 2020, named 2020 Oticon’s Focus on People Advocacy Award
Winner, 2021 Dallas Business Journal’s Leaders in Diversity Award honoree, 2021 Plano
Chamber of Commerce’s Rising Star Award winner, and the finalist for the 2022 Tech Titans
Community Hero Award.
Dylan serves on several executive boards, including serving as Founder, President &
Chairman for the North Texas Disability Chamber, Founding Advisory Board Member fo… Read More