advocate, public speaker and United Nations humanitarian Abha Khetarpal - Indian disability-rights activist, founder of Cross The Hurdles, the first-ever counselling/educational resource website and mobile application designed exclusively for people with disabilities. Lizzie Kiama - Kenyan founder of This-Ability Trust Bonnie Sherr Klein – directed the documentary film Shameless: The ART of Disability (2006) L Frank Larkin – activist who, inspired by the frustrations of living with spina bifida, sought to improve the lives of others with the condition; attended the European Parliament and other continental-level events Paul K. Longmore – American history professor and activist who was instrumental in the establishment of disability studies as an academic discipline, and in changes to Social Security that granted people with disabilities more rights Carrie Ann Lucas – disability rights attorney M Neil Marcus - actor and playwright active in the development of disability culture Robert Martin – activist for independent living for disabled people Ron McCallum – member of Committee on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities; has been on the National People with Disabilities and Carers Council; Chair of Radio for the Print Handicapped of New South Wales Co-operative Ltd.; the first totally blind person to have been appointed to a full professorship at an Australian university Anne McDonald – activist for independent living for disabled people Kathryn McGee – American activist who founded the National Association for Down Syndrome and the National Down Syndrome Congress; her daughter Tricia had Down syndrome Eva Middleton – Belizean advocate for disability rights and involved with the Belize Assembly for Persons with Diverse Abilities (BAPDA) Stacey Milbern – American activist who helped establish the disability justice movement Paul Steven Miller – American civil rights lawyer, activist and law professor, was a Commissioner of the US Equal Employment Opportunity Commission and author of the Genetic Information Nondiscrimination Act Jennifer Laszlo Mizrahi – The co-founder/director of the Mizrahi Family Charitable Fund. She also currently serves as president of RespectAbility, a nonprofit fighting stigmas and advancing opportunities for people with disabilities Leroy F. Moore Jr. – African American writer, poet, community activist, feminist, and the founder of Krip-Hop Alf Morris – introduced the Chronically Sick and Disabled Persons Act and first "Minister for the Disabled" in Great Britain or anywhere else N Karen Nakamura – American academic, author, filmmaker, photographer and the Robert and Colleen Haas Distinguished Chair of Disability Studies and Professor of Anthropology at