ADRIANNE.

Adrianne Haslet is a professional ballroom dancer, global keynote speaker, competitive runner and philanthropist.

A full-time professional dancer at the peak of her career, Adrianne was injured in the 2013 Boston Marathon bombing and lost her left leg below the knee. In the years since, her life and work have taken her far beyond the circumstances that first brought her to public attention.

She has appeared in her own CNN documentary, The Survivor Diaries, with Anderson Cooper, and has been featured on the covers of Sports Illustrated, People and Time. Her story has been covered by major media outlets around the world, and her work has also included national advertising campaigns and a Super Bowl commercial with David Ortiz. She also stars in the IMAX film The Heart of New England, released after five years of filming.

For more than thirteen years, Adrianne has traveled the world as a keynote speaker, addressing audiences across business, medicine, education and culture, from intimate rooms to packed arenas of 18,000 people. She has spoken alongside then-Vice President Joe Biden, President Bill Clinton and the President of Nepal, and has delivered talks throughout the United States and internationally, including in Kenya, Ecuador, Nepal, Ireland, Copenhagen and across Canada. Her TED Talk has been viewed more than 18 million times.

Her work has been recognized in a number of ways over the years. Adrianne was named one of Cosmopolitan’s Most Powerful Women and one of Bing’s Most Inspirational Women, and was honored by the Anti-Defamation League at the Kennedy Center for her work speaking out against terrorism, antisemitism, and hate. She has also received two honorary doctorates: an Honorary Doctor of Humane Letters from Worcester State University and an Honorary Doctor of Arts from Curry College.

Advocacy has remained a central part of Adrianne’s work. She has spoken out against proposed restrictions to Medicare prosthetic coverage and helped lead efforts to overturn New York’s “one leg a lifetime” insurance limitation. She has also spent years pushing for greater competitive access for para athletes.

That work eventually brought her to the starting line herself.

Adrianne became a distance runner and has completed multiple Boston Marathons. After advocating for six years for a competitive para division, she returned to race in the division she had helped make possible, finishing fourth. Two months later, she won the para division of the B.A.A. 10K.

Dance, however, has always remained part of the story. Adrianne built her first career in ballroom, reaching third in the world in company rankings. This December, she begins training with her new partner for a very special competition benefiting a charity near and dear to her heart.

Her work has also extended into medical education, philanthropy and communities around the world, including years spent working with future physicians and advocating for more thoughtful, equitable care for people with disabilities.

Today, Adrianne is once again based in her hometown of Seattle. She continues to speak internationally, run, dance, travel, write and advocate, while building whatever comes next.