Dr Deborah Lawson is a wheelchair user and a multi-award-winning Disability Advocate who has devoted her life to raising disability awareness and improving accessibility.
She is recognised as one of the most influential disabled changemakers in the UK and one of the UK’s most influential voices in Equity, Diversity and Inclusion.
Over the last two decades, despite living with severe and very painful disabilities and facing many serious personal challenges throughout her life (from life-threatening illnesses to a house fire and homelessness), she has improved the lives of hundreds of thousands of disabled people.