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Ali Stroker

Ali Stroker made history as the first person in a wheelchair to appear on Broadway and win a Tony Award.

Mary Verdi-Fletcher

Dancer Mary Verdi-Fletcher founded Cleveland-based Dancing Wheels in 1980 as the US’s first professional dance company to include dancers with and without disabilities.

Stacey Park Milbern

Korean-American disability rights activist

Louise Sauvage

One of Australia’s most successful Paralympians.

CeCe Mazyck

Military veteran and Paralympian

Dorothy Cottrell

Disabled Australian author Dorothy Cottrell was ‘the Liane Moriarty of the Jazz Age’ but is almost unheard of here

Dr Lisa I Iezzoni

In 1998, Dr. Lisa Iezzoni was the first woman to be appointed professor in the department of medicine at Beth Israel Hospital in Boston, MA.

Referring to herself as a ‘crip’, Stella controversially challenged people in the way they perceived disability and what it means to live as a disabled person. She described ‘crip’ as a liberating word; a term that seemed to horrify people but that made her feel strong and powerful.