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Here's to the leaders who are blind or vision impaired who have led in all the ways that you have this year! Your impact is noticed and it makes a difference in creating disability-inclusive communities through direct lived-experience leadership.
We know there are more out there though! Tag blind leaders you want to acknowledge in the comments. We'd love to celebrate with them.
PSA: #IDPWD is on 3 Dec.
Asking people with disability to speak for a function, write an article, be consulted on access issues, with quips about “thinking about the exposure you’ll gain” instead of payment does not pay our rent/mortgage, buy food, or help us pay our medical bills.
Moreover, when you pay someone like me, you’re not just paying for direct loved experience, but my professional expertise and years of education. You want diversity of perspective? Be respectfully inclusive.
As someone who has spent years working with an orientation and mobility specialist to be safe moving around the community with my cane, this is alarming. I will writing to the Qld Disability Minister ASAP. I’m already finding navigation hard enough with scooters- I wrote to the current Qld Inquiry about that, too. https://www.abc.net.au/news/2025-09-03/qld-left-hand-turn-road-rule-trial-government-considering/105728224
Listen to our presentation at the WBU Summit and join us - will you take the pledge?
Show your support for blind leadership at every level. Challenge systems that exclude us.
Sign up. Share it. Grow the movement.
Sign at unitedblindleaders.org/pledge
United Blind Leaders is proud to share our presentation to the Eleventh World Blindness Summit, in São Paulo, Brazil.
Our presentation - Why Should Blind People Lead Their Organizations? - was delivered by Emma Bennison and Graeme Innes.
Watch here: https://unitedblindleaders.org/wbu
Transcript available soon.
#Disability #Blind #BlindLeadership #NothingAboutUsWithoutUs
One of UBL’s Founder Graeme Innes AM was interviewed about leadership on ABC Radio National. Listen to the interview at the following link. https://www.abc.net.au/listen/programs/radionational-breakfast/changing-australia-graeme-innes-on-disability-and-leadership-/1055345
Countdown is on - two days to go!
Keep up to date with UBL Founders Emma Bennison and Graeme Innes in São Paulo, Brazil for the 2025 World Blind Union General Assembly and Blindness Summit.
For more information, visit https://mundialdadeficienciavisual.com.br/en/home-english/
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