The 2020 D-30 Disability Impact List

 
 

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.

 
 
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The 2020 D-30 by the Numbers

 

361

Nominations received

143

Nominees

30

Honorees

 

 
 
 

11

Countries represented

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Gender Identity

 

27%

Male

10%

Nonbinary

63%

Female

 

 
 

27%

LGBTQIA+

 
 
 

Racial Identity & Age

 

33%

Black

47%

Non-Black people of color

 

 

14-83

Age range

38

Median age

 
 

 “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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