Your Story Matters: Interactive Dialogues with People with Disabilities

This is a joint activity between the UNOV/UNODC, the Zero Project and Light for the World. This event aims to facilitate personal interaction between people with disabilities and participants in order to elevate the importance and visibility of disability inclusion among United Nations personnel. This event will place persons with disabilities front and center of the event. They will tell their personal stories in their own words in small break-out groups, which create unique encounters between the participants and the speakers. Participants will be randomly placed in the breakout rooms without any prior knowledge of the speakers, in order to create a genuine and unbiased encounter. The scope of these breakout sessions is to create a safe and more intimate space in which dialogues can be fostered and questions can be answered. This event creates an opportunity to challenge participants’ perspectives about people with disabilities by giving them the possibility to listen to two stories.

Speakers

Anna, Pfeiffer, Talent Development Team Leader, UNOV/UNODC;

Robin, Tim Weis, Manager, Public Sector, Zero Project;

Jane, Waitheira, Business Development Officer, Light for the World in Kenya;

Udi, Pollak, Universal Design Consultant;

Moran, Samuel, Paediatric physiotherapist, and Paralympic athlete;

Hun Srey, Nak, Programme Manager, People's Action for Inclusive Development (PAfID);

Samuel, Wunsch, Educational Specialist, Institute for Inclusive Education;

Robbie, Francis Watene, Disability Rights Activist, Her Abilities Winner 2000;

Erik, Wakoko, Disability inclusion Advisor, Light for the World;

Issah, Khamais, Disability Inclusion Facilitator, Light for the World in South Sudan;

Esma, Gumberidze, YouthLED Board Member, UNODC

Concept Note.docx