Tami Luchow is an inspirational speaker and writer. She runs programs for businesses nationwide that teach people to actively think about and understand what it means and feels like to be different—and then enjoy the fact that we are all UNIQUE. Her program challenges people to live the words DARE TO BE YOU™ and DARE TO DREAM™ and DARE TO BE DIFFERENT™.

As a person who was born with a physical disability, Tami uses lessons and experiences from her own life to help people of all ages connect with the meaning behind the words we use everyday and the real life implications of being "different." She speaks professionally at schools, businesses, camps, colleges & universities and religious organizations around the country about diversity and disability, always with a strong emphasis on her belief that "every person CAN DO and CAN SHARE within the community and the world." Tami is a former journalist with NBC News. She is also a former ski racer who competed on an international skiing circuit.

Tami believes strongly in giving back to the community and has been active in a volunteer capacity in many ways throughout her life including as a former member of the executive board of directors of The Amputee Coalition of America and as a youth coordinator for ASPIRE where she worked with young people with disabilities to develop their self-esteem through sports such as skiing and swimming.

Tami lives with her husband and two sons in New Jersey. She is a graduate of Yale University and Columbia University where she received a Bachelors and a Masters degree, respectively.

She is constantly sharing her life lessons, step by step, with people in all walks of life, at playgrounds, in schools and on the beach! A competitive gymnast as a child, Ms. Luchow has been living a life where physical fitness, health and self-esteem have always been paramount. Tami likes to think of herself as someone who was "born to be different!"