[1][2] Alongside E. Ashkenazy and Lydia Brown, Onaiwu is an editor of All the Weight of Our Dreams, an anthology of art and writing entirely by autistic people of color published by the Autism Women's Network in June 2017.
[3] Giwa Onaiwu was born in the United States to immigrant parents from Nigeria and Cape Verde, where the majority of her relatives still live.
[6] After graduating with a BA in International Relations, Giwa Onaiwu worked in the non-profit sector with a variety of disenfranchised groups, including women, at-risk teens, and refugee families.
[5] Giwa Onaiwu has launched and led a number of campaigns for human rights, concentrating on HIV and Autism advocacy.
In 2015, she started a petition to dismiss felony assault charges against an autistic middle school student and delivered it to the court alongside several other autism advocates.