After receiving almost 400 nominations for almost 150 incredible leaders with disabilities globally, we are pleased to present the inaugural D-30 Disability Impact List on July 26, 2020, the 30th anniversary of the ADA. We know that this list is not comprehensive of all the disabled people doing great work, we hope that this can be a catalyst for continuing to advance disability inclusion, leadership, and representation at all levels.
Stacey’s work was inherently empowering to everyone who encountered it. She touched many participants at National Youth Leadership Network during her tenure with NYLN, and was always encouraging and inclusive. She made an undeniable mark on countless people with disabilities through her beautiful writing and powerful commitment to loving disabled people. In the last year, Stacey launched the Disability Justice Culture Club which organizes to uplift disabled queer BIPOC. Recently, DJCC organized mutual aid including grocery runs and PPE for disabled folks affected by COVID-19. Stacey also led the Crip Camp virtual impact campaign, an ongoing community experience to center disability justice through weekly Zoom meetings. Crip Camp campaign also formed an aid fund for disabled artists affected by COVID. She recently fought fiercely against care rationing during the pandemic.
Learn more about Stacey in the Disability Visibility Project and the New York Times.
Nominations received
Nominees
Honorees
11
Countries represented
Male
Nonbinary
Female
LGBTQIA+
Black
Non-Black people of color
Age range
Median age
Learn more about the behind of the scenes of the selection process on this podcast episode with D-30 Selection Committee Member Alex Locust. Follow this link for a podcast summary and full transcription.
“That impact is unconditional that you’ve already made. And reading all of these stories, all around the globe, so many different disabilities, so many intersections of identities, my heart swelled reading these and realizing how much people are just triumphant, and how much disability creates so much beauty in the human spirit and so much resilience and strength and power. And they are already possibility models for people in their lives and people like myself witnessing that.”
— Alex Locust, 2020 D-30 Selection Committee Member
Thank you to Diversability team members Katy Brennan for her leadership on this process & our Design Fellow Alyssa Yam. And a special thank you to our D-30 Selection Committee members.
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