CCYDN Advocacy and Campaigning Team Women with Disabilities Australia (WWDA)Margherita is a migrant, queer, young woman with a disability from Australia, who works on a wide range of projects which advocate for young women and non-binary people with disability. She represents young people in policy, government and international spaces through her extensive work. She has…

Sense India CCYDN UNGEI RepresentativeShrutilata has progressive deafblindness, and has completed her Bachelors of Arts, and Diploma in Physiotherapy. She joined Sense International India in April 2020 and has been engaging with Stakeholders to advocate for rights of people with Deafblindness in India. She is involved in rights-based advocacy and also building capacity of family…

Maldives Association Persons with DisabilitiesIrshad works with Maldives Association of Persons with Disabilities (MAPD) as an advocate at the national and international levels. His advocacy work focuses on education, employment, youth with disabilities, girls and women and engaging rural communities. He oversees the youth advocacy team and is currently studying in his Bachelor’s Degree in…

CCYDN Advocacy and Campaigning Team Inclusive Action for Development Sustainability (Nigeria)Joy is a BSc holder in food and nutrition , whose passion for the humanity had journeyed into the civil space to reach many not only through healthy dieting awareness and counselling but through development issues and programs that speaks for an inclusive society, while…

CCYDN Advocacy and Campaigning Team Gifted Community Centre (Kenya)Sandra is an influential young leader and passionate disability inclusion advocate, providing frontline support geared towards amplifying the voices of disabled persons and marginalized youths for an all-inclusive and barrier-free society that values diversity and respects all human rights.Sandra diligently served as a Peer Counsellor at the…

MUADS) / Oyam District Association of the Deaf (Uganda)Odwaeat is a junior Agribusiness consultant at Njovu Agro Enterprises limited, a farmer, trainer and a young Leader with passions for livelihood Development, inclusiveness, gender equality and human rights. He is the CEO and founder of Intergrated Disabled Agripreneurs Uganda-IDAPU a youth led Agripreneurship project that specializes…

CCYDN African Region Representative Shivyawata (Tanzania) Details Coming Soon

CCYDN Associate Executive Committee Member and Advisor Jonathan is a lawyer at international law firm Reed Smith, specialising in media law, and an elected councillor for the London Borough of Bromley (he was elected at age 28 and is currently its youngest elected councillor). Having been diagnosed as being on the autistic spectrum at nine…

CCYDN Associate Executive Committee Member and Advisor Heidi is a young Autistic woman with multiple co-occurring disabilities and chronic illnesses. In addition to her own self-advocacy, Heidi has an extensive background working in disability systemic advocacy, including in spaces working to advance the rights of young people with disabilities. Heidi lives in Tasmania, the island…

CCYDN Associate Executive Committee Member and Advisor Krystle is a diversity and inclusion specialist and Co-founded the Enable Lanka Foundation. The Foundation is also the Sri Lankan partner for the APAC Microsoft Enabler program, which provides online training in data engineering and programming, cloud computing, and application development to young people with disabilities. Krystle also…