About the PEARLS Project

When we redefine beauty, we amplify the unique gifts and contributions each person brings into our world.

An online, creative platform, the PEARLS Project shares the range and richness of human diversity — and how we can recognize, embrace, and celebrate its power.

Ambassadors use the PEARLS Project to bring voices to life experiences and advocacy. In sharing perspectives, Ambassadors offer us reimagined ways to empathize, understand, and look beyond difference.

If you’d like to become a PEARLS Ambassador, please complete this application.

PEARLS Initiatives

We’ve collaborated with educators to develop and facilitate PEARLS programs that amplify inclusive, celebratory storytelling. Read on how PEARLS has come to classrooms of all kinds.

Our Ambassadors

Ambassador Categories

Woman with brown curly hair in a bright multicolored dress
Caroline
I am a 62 year old mom of 3 young adults, Public Health School Nurse, living with Sickle Cell Disease.
Ovya
Medical student interested in plastic surgery, especially craniofacial care.
family of 4 smiling
Ethan, Elsie, and Ella
A family with a variety of interests and challenges connected by love, diabetes, Angelman syndrome, Cerebral Palsy and Autism.
Young man with his arms outstretched looking into the camera. There is a patch of sunlight on the floor behind him.
Vance
Well dressed classic rocker living with Cerebral Palsy.
boy with curly brown hair smiling into the camera
Trey
An amazing, loving, strong, and resilient four-year-old living with a rare and aggressive brain cancer known as ATRT or Atypical Teratoid Rhabdoid Tumor.
Man wearing a dark blazer and blue beret, with a pink backback over his left shoulder. He is holdinghis white cane in his right hand and phone in his left hand. He is looking into the camera and smiling.
Dr. Anthony
Physician and a dedicated Army veteran living with Leber Hereditary Optic Neuropathy
Young lady in a printed dress holding a hula hoop.
Tanner Nicole
Tanner Nicole is the pure evidence of resiliency living with Ankyloblepharon-ectodermal defects–cleft lip & palate syndrome (AEC)
Couple sitting on a porch.
Sarah
Sarah is a medical student motivated to pursue a career in palliative care living with Rheumatoid Arthritis.
Boy with glasses smiling against a red wall. He is in a powerchair.
Nolan
Power wheelchair soccedr player living with Transverse Myelitis.
5 boys and mon sitting and lounging on the floor
Naj
Living with autism, this energetic young man is one of 5 very active brothers.
Megan and Jack
A love story between 2 very active models, actors, athletes living with Down syndrome.
Mom and son hugging
Maya and Julian
Mom is a cardiogenetic counselor and son is a writer living with marfan syndrome.
A couple close up portrait.
Mads and B
A beautiful couple navigating autism and ADHD together
young girl with blond hair jumping against red wall
Kay
A strong, energetic, and a natural athlete born with a cleft palate and living with autism
Young lady with white ruffled top smiling.
Kali
Sickle Cell disease has made me really strong!

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