Eleanor Lisney is a campaigner, founder member, public speaker and director of Sisters of Frida. She is an access advisor, an aspiring creative practitioner and co founder of Culture Access CIC, which is about supporting access, bringing an inclusive edge intersectionally. Recently, Eleanor joined the TSIC Advisory Board and was working on a project with them for the London Funders. She was also on the Disability Arts Online Board. Presently she is on the Board of Directors of EVR ( End Violence and Racism Against ESEA Communities) and on the Liberty (Festival) Advisory Group.

She was born in Malaysia and has lived in Strasbourg, France and studied at Austin, Texas. She has two grown up children and a grandson. https://linktr.ee/eleanorlisney

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Tumu Johnson is a mental health worker and group facilitator with experience of working in front line support services, research and community organising. She is currently studying for a Masters in Mental Health Studies whilst working in the NHS and also provides freelance training around mental health and wellbeing.

Tumu is committed to making the world a more accessible place and fighting for the rights of disabled people. She is a feminist who takes an intersectional approach and hopes to draw on her experiences as a black disabled woman to contribute to achieving social justice.

Rachel O’Brien is Community Organiser (Coordinators and Networks) at Amnesty International UK. Previously, she was the Independent Living Campaigns Officer at Inclusion London after working at the National Union of Students as the Disabled Students’ Officer where she did work on movement building and political education, and campaigns around stopping the privatisation of the NHS and stopping and scrapping Universal Credit.

Advisers

Sarah Rennie is a former solicitor. Her day to day work is research and governance advice. However, Sarah delivers Disability Equality Training nationwide and acts as a consultant for select clients on internal equality working groups.

She was a steering committee member of Sisters of Frida, a co director and has now taken on an advisory role to the organisation.

Kirsty Liddiard Kirsty Liddiard is a feminist disability studies scholar and disabled researcher whose co-produced research centres on lived experience, emotion and embodiment as core axes through which to understand the everyday lives of disabled people and their families. She is currently a Senior Research Fellow in the School of Education and iHuman at the University of Sheffield. She is the author of The Intimate Lives of Disabled People (2018, Routledge) and the co-editor of The Palgrave Handbook of Disabled Children’s Childhood Studies (2018, Palgrave). She is also co-editor of Being Human in Covid-19 (2022, Bristol University Press) and a co-author of Living Life to the Fullest: Youth, Disability and Voice (2022, Emerald). Her current project, Cripping Breath: Towards a new cultural politics of respiration, funded by a Wellcome Discovery Award, explores the lives of people who have had their lives saved or sustained by ventilatory medical technologies.

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Lani Parker (she/her) is a facilitator, trainer, consultant and coach with a background in providing advice, information and advocacy within disabled people’s organisations. She has also been involved with migrant solidarity and abolitionist movements. From 2015 to 2022, she was a steering committee member of Sisters of Frida, a co director and has now taken on an advisory role to the organisation. Examples of her work can be found at https://sidewaystimesblog.wordpress.com and www.bolderlives.co.uk.  She is passionate about making connections and developing new ideas and visions that centre disabled people and other marginalised groups. 

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