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…

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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…