Equal opportunity for individuals with disabilities is #Solvable. Yetnebersh Nigussie describes how inclusive education can reduce the social, professional, and academic inequalities felt by people with disabilities.
Yetnebersh Niguisse is an Ethiopian lawyer, disability rights activist, and the co-founder and former executive director of the Ethiopian Centre for Disability and Development. Blind since the age of five, she works to change perceptions on disability locally and internationally and is an advocate for the rights enshrined in the UN Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities. She is currently the Senior Inclusion Advisor at Light for the World, an international disability and development organization whose mission is to contribute to a world in which persons with disabilities fully exercise their rights.