People with disabilities often face unfair treatment in many areas of life, including jobs, representation, and recognition. These challenges are often linked to other forms of inequality, such as class, race, and gender. However, disability is not always treated as a key issue in wider inequality campaigns.
Even though these challenges are common, many inequality movements do not fully include the voices and experiences of people with disabilities. At the same time, disability groups can find it difficult to link their work with other struggles against inequality. Disability justice activists and inequality campaigners from Ghana and Kenya worked together on a research project focused on disability justice and reducing inequality.
Join this online discussion co-hosted by ADD International and Atlantic Fellows for Social and Economic Equity to share reflections and experiences of working together across the disability justice and inequality movements.
Speaker
Danny Sriskandarajah
Danny Sriskandarajah is Chief Executive of the New Economics Foundation and Visiting Senior Fellow at the International Inequalities Institute at LSE. He has previously led Oxfam GB, CIVICUS, the Royal Commonwealth Society, the Commonwealth Foundation and held positions at the Institute for Public Policy Research. He is a trustee of the Guy’s & St Thomas’ Foundation and has previously been a trustee of the Baring Foundation, Comic Relief, Disasters Emergency Committee and Praxis Community Projects.
Speaker
Francis Bichnord Asong
Francis Bichnord Asong is an award-winning governance and inclusion expert with over 24 years of experience in civil society leadership, disability rights advocacy, and strategic management across Ghana and Africa. He is the Executive Director of the Africa Disability Institute . He has served on several national and international boards and committees, including Transparency International Ghana, and STAR Ghana Foundation contributing his expertise in governance, accountability, and institutional strengthening.
Speaker
Yetneberesh Nigussie Molla
Yetneberesh Nigussie Molla is an accomplished Ethiopian lawyer with a disability, international disability rights advocate, and co-chair of disability justice organisation ADD International. She has held senior leadership roles with organisations advancing disability rights, including managing the GLAD Network Secretariat at the International Disability Alliance, leading Human Rights and Global Advocacy at Light for the World International, and co-founding and directing the Ethiopian Center for Disability and Development until 2015.
Chair
Philippa Mullins
Philippa Mullins is a research associate at the Centre for Sociological Research (CeSO) of KU Leuven. She completed her PhD at the LSE Department of Social Policy, and is a Visiting Fellow at the LSE International Inequalities Institute and the University at Buffalo’s Center for Disability Studies. She works primarily in disability and resistance studies. Her research has explored how Russian disability organising uses vulnerability as political strategy, and how disabled children in Gyumri, Armenia navigate and challenge their integration into exclusionary schooling.
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