The Wheelchair Activist: Recent Episodes
Emma Vogelmann
'Wheelchair Activist' Emma Vogelmann interviews incredible members of the disabled community and its' allies, succeeding in all areas of life. Emma will also be covering life as a disabled person with all of it highs, lows and in betweens.
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We're discussing all things AI and Disability on this episode The Wheelchair Activist!
Emma speaks with Christine Hemphill, a researcher, designer, and innovator specialising in disability and age-inclusion. She is the Founder and Managing Director of Open Inclusion, a UK-based, globally active research agency leading in disability and age-informed market, social, design, and innovation research. Emma and Christine discuss both the negative and positive ways AI is impacting disabled people and how the technology needs to include more diverse perspectives through inclusive data sets.
Learn more about Open Inclusion at OpenInclusion.com
Guess what? The Wheelchair Activist submitted to the British Podcast Awards and the Independent Podcast Awards! The total entry fees came to £755, which is a significant cost for an independent, disabled-led podcast. If you’ve enjoyed the show or believe in what it stands for, please consider chipping in to our Podcast Award Fundraiser. Every donation helps share disabled stories with a wider audience and challenges the idea that award-worthy storytelling only comes from big-budget productions.
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This episode of The Wheelchair Activist, Emma chats with Tiffany Yu about her new book! Tiffany is a disability advocate, content creator, and the author of The Anti-Ableist Manifesto. The book is now available in both the UK and the US. Enjoy Emma and Tiffany's conversation about topics that the book covers including the definition of ableism, how to build a disability-inclusive world, navigating advocacy as a disabled person, and so much more.
Order Tiffany's book The Anti-Ableist Manifesto at www.tiffanyyu.com/book.
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Welcome back to The Wheelchair Activist! We are kicking off season four with an incredible guest, David Holmes. David worked as a stunt double for the Harry Potter films and acquired a spinal chord injury after an accident on set of Deathly Hallows part one. His story is told in the HBO documentary "The Boy Who Lived" and David's book, also titled "The Boy Who Lived." David joins Emma on this episode to discuss his stunt work on Harry Potter and other films, the magic of storytelling, and his journey with acquiring a disability.
Learn more about David and follow him on social media at https://linktr.ee/davidholmes83
Watch David's documentary "The Boy Who Lived"
Read or listen to David's book "The Boy Who Lived"
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For the final episode of season 3, Emma interviews Rebekah Taussig and Sophie Bradbury-Cox about their journeys as disabled mothers. They discuss societal stigma around disabled motherhood, barriers to accessing medical care during pregnancy, and the particular joys of parenting with a disability.
Learn more about Rebekah at www.rebekahtaussig.com
Learn more about Sophie at www.fashionbellee.com
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Coming right off of the highly anticipated film's premiere weekend, this episode features actress Marissa Bode who plays Nessarose in the new film adaptation of the musical Wicked! Emma and Marissa chat about the Wicked audition process, how Ariana Grande and Cynthia Erivo surprised Marissa when she got the role, previous portrayals of Nessa, the importance of authentic casting of disabled characters, and much more! Follow Marissa Bode on Instagram @marissa_edob.
Stay tuned for our final episode of season 3 dropping next month. If you enjoy this podcast, please consider supporting by sharing this episode, rating the show, contributing to our GoFundMe, or buying me a coffee!
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This episode, Emma interviews journalist and content creator Lucy Edwards! They discuss her recent collaboration with Barbie, how she became an entrepreneur, advice for disabled content creators and consultants, plus more! Learn about Lucy and check out her content here: https://linktr.ee/lucyedwards
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This episode, Emma interviews actor and singer, Jenna Bainbridge! She is currently performing on Broadway in the new Tony award winning musical, Suffs. Learn more about Jenna at www.jennabainbridge.com and learn more about Suffs at suffsmusical.com.
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This episode, Emma interviews two couples! First, you'll hear from Chloe and Alex (@SticksAndCopper on social media) about their experience as an interabled couple. Then, you'll hear from Carrie and Alex about their relationship as an engaged couple who both are disabled.
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This episode, Emma speaks with actor Zak Ford-Williams! They discuss his breakout role as Lord Remington on the most recent season of Bridgerton, disability representation in period dramas, and his acting career thus far.
Zak Ford-Williams trained at the Manchester School of Theatre, graduating in 2020. His theatre credits include: The Real & Imagined History of the Elephant Man (Nottingham Playhouse); A Christmas Carol: A Ghost Story (Nottingham Playhouse/Alexandra Palace); We Were Told There Was Dancing, Nothing (Royal Exchange Theatre); Coram Boy, Attempts on Her Life, Play, The Duchess of Malfi, 'Tis Pity She's a Whore, The Seagull, Time and the Conways (Manchester School of Theatre). His screen credits include: The Hardacres (Channel 5); Bridgerton (Netflix); Better (Sister Pictures/BBC); Wolfe (Sky); Midsomer Murders (ITV); Mobility (BBC Three); Battery (104 Films).
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Happy Pride Month! This episode of The Wheelchair Activist, Emma speaks with Annie Segarra, Ezra Johnson, and Jasper Williams about the intersections of being a part of both the disabled and LGBTQIA+ communities.
Annie Segarra is a dedicated activist, content creator, and a proud member of the LGBTQ+ community; she is queer and gender fluid and alternates between, she/they/he pronouns. Living with Ehlers-Danlos Syndrome and other co-occurring conditions, she is well-known for her advocacy work in disability rights, as well as, body positivity, mental health, and social justice, using her engaging videos and insightful discussions to raise awareness.
Ezra Johnson is a Campaigns and Communications Officer at Transport for All. He started working there after becoming disabled, developing a seizure disorder and chronic pain which changed his life drastically overnight.
Jasper Armitage-Williams is a profoundly Deaf wheelchair user and openly trans man. As a queer man, he's been involved in LGBTQ+ activism since 2012 when setting up his school's support group. In 2021, he founded WheelieQueer, offering disability benefits support, inclusion training, and pride accessibility consultancy. With a background as a former trans officer at Bangor University and LGBT+ officer for NUS Wales, Jasper brings extensive experience to advocacy. Most recently, he was shortlisted for two Scope awards for his dedication to disability activism.
BSL interpretation for this episode was provided by CoSign.
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This episode of The Wheelchair Activist, Emma speaks to author Melissa Whitney about disability representation in romance novels. Melissa is a legally blind woman who explores themes of disability, mental health, trauma, and family in her novels. Her debut novel titled In the Hello and in the Goodbye was just released in April, and she has another book coming out in July called Finding Home.
US and UK listeners can order In the Hello and in the Goodbye and pre-order Finding Home on Melissa's website: www.melissawhitneywrites.com
Follow Melissa on Instagram at @Melissa_WhitneyAuthor
CONTENT WARNING: This episode discusses mental health and related sensitive topics. Please take care while listening.
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This episode of The Wheelchair Activist is all about mental health and disability. Given the importance of the topic, this episode is split into two parts. First, Emma interviews Fern Lulham-- A blind public speaker and mental health counselor. They discuss the intersection of disability and mental health, the barriers disabled people face when seeking mental health services, Fern's perspectives as a therapist with a disability, and much more. Then, you'll hear clips sent in by two listeners, Fuchsia and Mel, sharing their mental health journeys as disabled women.
Learn more about Fern at FernLulham.com and on Instagram, Facebook and X at @missfernlulham.
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In the Season Three premiere of the Wheelchair Activist Podcast, join Jillian Curwin—a disability advocate and fashion enthusiast. Jillian discusses her frustrations with the fashion industry's inclusivity, emphasizing the ongoing journey for true representation. The episode explores disability representation, highlighting both progress and challenges. The conversation takes unexpected turns, touching on topics like the new Willy Wonka movie and the upcoming Snow White film. Tune in for a genuine exploration of inclusivity in the fashion industry and unexpected conversations that matter.
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Jillian's podcast Always Looking Up
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Dom was born with a severe form of Osteogenesis Imperfecta (more commonly known as Brittle Bones). He had more than 25 broken bones during birth, is of short stature and uses a powered wheelchair for his mobility.
Dom joined the Purple Goat agency team in February 2021 as Head of Strategy - the world's first and only disability-led and disability focused agency looking to create the most inclusive, representative and forward thinking marketing campaigns in the world by integrating disability knowhow and lived-experience.The agency has seen tremendous growth over the last couple of years, with international clients including Meta, Virgin Media, the EU and Starling Bank. They wholeheartedly adhere to the mantra of "Nothing about Us, Without Us."
Dom’s first real exposure to the world of Media came when he starred in C4’s award winning documentary ‘Crip on Trip’ - documenting the travels of him and his non-disabled school mates interrailing around Europe. After studying Management at Warwick Uni in the UK, Dom secured a place on the C4 Graduate scheme. This led him to work at the sports TV production company Sunset+Vine as a producer working across output including the landmark Paralympic coverage in 2012 and 2016. He has since worked in various digital media, marketing and communications roles, which led him to founding Tiny Man Digital, a digital marketing agency that helps diverse companies shine online.
He is also the founding editor of the Disability Power100 - Power List of Disability, which inspires the younger generations of people with disabilities by showcasing a list of powerful leaders in diverse industries.
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Alan Benson is a disability rights activist and campaigner, with a particular interest in accessible travel. As a wheelchair user Alan has a firm belief in a pan impairment approach based on a lifetime of lived experience of discrimination and barriers. He credits much of his knowledge and success to the amazing, supportive online community.
As Chair of Transport for All and Deputy Chair at London Travelwatch he is a passionate advocate for public transport, for which he was awarded an MBE in 2022. He is also a trustee at Ruils, the independent living charity and a Fellow at the Royal Society of Arts.
Prior to this Alan spent a 25 year career running IT teams building and running large computer systems supporting thousands of users all over the UK.
He lives in Richmond-upon-Thames where, in 2022, he was proud to be awarded Freedom of the Borough, though he remains disappointed that this does not actually give him the right to drive geese over Richmond Bridge.
Peta Hooke is the creator and host of The I Can’t Stand Podcast. She is thirty-something living in Melbourne, with Cerebral Palsy. Peta is a passionate advocate for the disability community through educating non-disabled people on what it is actually like to live with a disability.
The I Can’t Stand Podcast, is a weekly podcast answering the audiences’ questions they have about disability. There is no wrong question. Every question is on the table. The podcast can be found on all major podcasting platforms including Apple, Google and Spotify.
If you have a question for the podcast or would like to get in touch with her, you can:
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Send Peta an email icantstandpodcast@gmail.com
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Zoe Portlock is a Digital Accessibility Expert who established and now leads Accessibility for the UKs biggest investment platform. Zoe also writes about digital accessibility for Scope.
Her work and advocacy is informed by her lived experience. She is autistic, dyslexic, dyspraxic, has Irlen Syndrome, M.E/CFS and fibromyalgia.
Zoe is a tenacious advocate for all people with access needs, driven to ensure all users have the equal digital experience they deserve.
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Holly Tuke is the author behind the award-winning blog Life of a Blind Girl. She is registered blind due to a condition called Retinopathy of Prematurity, and she also has ME/CFS.
Holly was named as one of the top 100 most influential disabled people in the UK in the Shaw Trust Disability Power 100 list in 2018 and 2019. She also won the Social Media Influencer of the Year award at the 2019 RNIB See Differently Awards. She has been featured in mainstream media including Alure Magazine, BBC News, The Guardian, the Huffington Post, BBC Radio Leeds, BBC Radio Manchester and BBC Radio York.
Away from the blog, you can usually find Holly getting lost in an audiobook, listening to music, spending time with her friends and family, or at a concert. She works as a Social Media Officer within the charity sector for RNIB and previously worked as an Assistive Technology Advisor within higher education.
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Victoria is an award winning adaptive designer, disability advocate, speaker and writer. She has spent the past 14 years working as a garment technologist in the fashion industry before becoming disabled in her mid 20’s and has a variety of gastrointestinal and musculoskeletal conditions. This is what led to her founding Unhidden, a socially responsible universally designed fashion range for people with (and without) disabilities, which is also the first brand of its kind to join the British Fashion Council. She has written a book, The Little Book of Ableism, has done a TedX talk called 'Fighting Ableism Through Fashion' and has had extensive media coverage for her work both with Unhidden and on inclusion. Victoria is a an ambassador for Models of Diversity, Purple Tuesday and Parallels' purple sock day. She sits on the shadow board of Reflect the Agency and is part of Universal Inclusions' APPG and is shortlisted for the Shaw Trust Power 100.
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Tanni Grey-Thompson realised at age 13 that Wheelchair Racing was her sport of choice. Tanni's first Paralympics was Seoul in 1988, where she won a bronze medal in the 400m. Her fifth and last Paralympic Games were in Athens (2004) where she won two gold medals in wheelchair racing in the 100m and 400m. In total in her Paralympic career she won 16 medals (11 gold, four silver and a bronze) and also 13 World Championship medals (six gold, five silver and two bronze). Over her career, Tanni broke 30 World Records on the track.
Tanni has continued to be involved in sport and physical activity. She is a Board Member of the London Marathon, the Sportsaid Foundation, the Duke of Edinburgh Awards and Join In. In addition to this she is also a Board Member of several organisations including Transport for London, the London Legacy Development Corporation and the London 2017 Organising Committee.
In 2010 Tanni became an Independent Crossbench Peer in the House of Lords, taking the title Baroness Grey-Thompson of Eaglescliffe in the County of Durham. As a working peer Tanni uses her experience and knowledge during debates in the House and she has spoken on a range of issues including Disability Rights, Welfare Reform, and of course, Sport.
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Shani Dhanda is a multi-award-winning inclusion specialist and social entrepreneur listed as one of the UK's most influential disabled people by the Shaw Trust and BBC's 100 Women List 2020.
As a keynote speaker and practitioner for inclusion across business, government, non-profit and wider society, Shani helps organisations break barriers and integrate inclusion into their business frameworks.
As an influential woman in leadership, Shani has taken change into her own hands and founded numerous organisations to improve representation and challenge social inequality globally - Diversability, Asian Woman Festival, and Asian Disability Network.
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Emma is a Labour MP and the first female representative for South Shields in Parliament, having been elected in 2013. Prior to her election, Emma was as a local Councillor and a child protection social worker. She is committed to supporting vulnerable people across her constituency alongside many other important issues. Emma was diagnosed with dyspraxia at the age of 27 and is proud to be a disabled MP.
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In this episode, Emma interviews Toby Mildon, a Diversity & Inclusion Architect and founder of Mildon, a consultancy and advisory business. Toby works with businesses to devise diversity and inclusion strategies, re-engineer processes and systems to minimise the impact of bias and build a culture of inclusion. Toby is the author of the Amazon bestselling book Inclusive Growth: futureproof your business by creating a diverse workplace. Prior to setting up his business, Toby worked as an in-house diversity and inclusion manager at the BBC and Deloitte.
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Vicky Foxcroft has been the Member of Parliament for Lewisham Deptford since 2015. Prior to her election, she served as a local councillor in the constituency and worked for a trade union for over a decade.
Vicky served as an opposition whip for almost four years before becoming Shadow Minister for Civil Society in 2019.
When Keir Starmer took over as Labour leader in April 2020, he made Vicky his Shadow Minister for Disabled People. Since then she has fought hard to ensure that disabled people’s voices are being heard throughout the COVID-19 crisis and beyond, questioning ministers in the Commons and has met with a huge range of disabled people and Disabled People’s Organisations.
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In our season premiere, Emma interviews Dr Hannah-Barham Brown. Named as one of the Health Service Journal’s 100 Most Influential People in Health, Hannah is a Deputy Leader of the UK Women’s Equality Party, GP trainee in Yorkshire, a Governor of the Motability Foundation, and a Council Member of the British Medical Association. Hannah has given two TEDx talks (TEDxNHS and TEDxExeter) on the need for diversity in employment and in the NHS, and being a #RollModel and regularly works with international, national and local media, (including NBC, BBC Radio 4’s Woman’s Hour, BBC Breakfast and Sky News).
She brings her experiences as a neurodivergent, Queer, wheelchair-using woman to life for audiences with a combination of wit, motivation and her unique way of seeing the world. Hannah was named on the Shaw Trust’s 2018, 2019 and 2020 ‘Power Lists’ – making her one of the 100 most Influential Disabled People in the UK.
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Samantha Renke is an actress, presenter, speaker, writer and disability rights campaigner who was named as number 3 in The Shaw Trust Power 100 List of 2020 – a list of the UK’s most influential disabled people. She is a guest speaker in this year’s Happy Place Festival and her debut book, You Are The Best Thing Since Sliced Bread, will be published in July by Penguin Books under its Happy Place Books imprint which is curated by Fearne Cotton.
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Thank you to everyone who has tuned in for this inaugural season of The Wheelchair Activist. We'll see you again in September.
This week, Emma interviews the inspiration for this podcast, colleague Paul Fuller. Paul is the Executive Director of Partnerships for charity Scope, responsible for shaping and delivering impact, funding and reach for campaigns and services. His primary goal is finding Corporate Partners to help Scope amplify the need for everyday equality for the 14m disabled people living in the UK.
He has recently learnt the life changing importance of Partnerships as he was paired with his first Guide Dog, Bolt. Paul is also an active supporter and speaker for the charity Guide Dogs.
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Today's episode of The Wheelchair Activist is with the unstoppable mentor and disability consultant Kay Ashton MBE. In this episode we discuss Kay's journey to pregnancy using IVF. At the end of today's episode we ask listeners to donate to Planned Parenthood. This episode was recorded before the recent decision taken by The Supreme Court in the U.S to overturn abortion rights, but we feel it's contents are extremely relevant. Planned Parenthood delivers vital reproductive health care, sex education, and information to millions of people worldwide. We realize that this is a very scary time for women and girls across the world who are worried about their access to a safe and legal abortion.
We stand with everyone scared, and we will continue to fight with you until everyone has the right to choose what they do with their own body.
We hope you enjoy the episode as much as we enjoyed recording it.
kayashton #pregnancy #disability #ivf #roevswade #womensrights #mybodymychoice
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This week Emma interviews Chris Fry, a Disability Rights Lawyer, Disruptor and Innovator with cases which make changes to everyday life. He represents Deaf and disabled people who face barriers with access to services, advice, information and education, and has been at the forefront of disability rights work for the last 10 years. You can check out his website at
www.frylegal.co.uk
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Liam O’Dell is a Deaf, dyspraxic and autistic journalist and campaigner with OCD. He also identifies as asexual. He writes regularly for Indy100 (part of The Independent), Metro and The Limping Chicken, which is a popular Deaf news website. His work has appeared in The Guardian, The Verge and the BBC amongst others, and he is regularly approached for interviews on Deaf issues. He reviews London theatre productions in his spare time over at liamodell.com.
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In this episode, Emma talks to childhood best friend Lanie Berk. Lanie, who has known Emma for over 20 years, is a Child Life Specialist in Chicago. She helps reduce stress and anxiety for children and families and bring some fun in to the hospital setting. Her passion for child life sparked from her relationship with the wheelchair activist and growing up with a disabled best friend.
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Emma interviews Roxanne Steel. Roxanne Steel is a proud disabled feminist campaigner, content creator, trained activist, speaker and media consultant, who also works with D&A as an Accessibility and Inclusion Specialist. All views are her own.
In this episode we're discussing all things intersectional feminism, workplace barriers and even Zoom calls with Matt Hancock.
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Emma interviews Lucy Webster, a writer, political journalist, and disability advocate. Lucy is a full time wheelchair user. We discuss the social model, Lucy's advocate work, the disability community, ableism and even eating cake for breakfast.
You can subscribe to Lucy's wonderful newsletter The View From Down Here by going to https://lucywebster.substack.com/
Producers: Emma Vogelmann & Isabelle Anderson
Editor: Theo Watt
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Emma interviews Jason Bates, Lead Communication and Engagement Manager at Tesco Maintenance and former Chair of Disability at Tesco. Jason has cerebral palsy and is a wheelchair user.
All views are those of Jason Bates and do not represent those of Tesco or its affiliates.
Producers: Emma Vogelmann & Isabelle Anderson
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Emma interviews Nina Tame, a disability mentor, content creator and influencer. Nina is a full-time wheelchair user.
Producers: Emma Vogelmann & Isabelle Anderson
Editor: Theo Watt
Please note there are expletives in this episode
Emma interviews Chloe Timms, a disability rights campaigner, podcaster and writer. She has Spinal Muscular Atrophy.
Donate to this cause on Go Fund Me at https://www.gofundme.com/f/the-wheelchair-activist or sign up to our Patreon at https://www.patreon.com/the_wheelchair_activist.
"Thus far, this project is self-funded. We want to continue to invest in accessibility of the website and the podcast and promotion of the content as well as hiring a producer. My dream is to one day be able to pay each guest who comes on the podcast because disabled people have done too much for free for too long.
So far I have worked with a virtual assistant who has designed the website, a disabled illustrator to develop the podcast artwork and a disabled freelance accessibility expert to do an audit website to make sure all disabled people can access the content. Each one of these amazing woman has been paid for their work.
This project is so much bigger than me doing a podcast and bogging. It is about providing some much-needed representation for the disabled community and highlighting the issues we face every day. If you are able to contribute towards this project I will be forever grateful." Emma
Emma interviews disability charity Scope's Accessibility Specialist, Elisabeth Ward. Elisabeth is an amputee from birth who also has chronic migraines.
Head to https://youtu.be/J63RIGgqwoA to watch with full transcript.
Emma Vogelmann is a disability activist working with organisations such as Muscular Dystrophy UK, Amnesty International, SMA UK and Scope to raise the profile of issues facing the disabled community. Emma is 28 years old and has a condition called spinal muscular atrophy which causes her to use an electric wheelchair. In 2009, Emma contracted the swine flu whilst living in Chicago which left her needing a tracheostomy and a ventilator. The Wheelchair Activist podcast will shine a light on the amazing disabled people who are changing the world in their own way as well as following Emma's own lived experiences as a disabled person in the UK.