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Who We Are

A path with shadows of disabled people moving down it. Trees and books surround the path. Embracing Equity is in large text in the air. Three books are at the bottom left and the word Impact is next to it.
Embrace equity. The power of disabled people’s lived experience. We drive action and impact.

Active Inclusion: Core Team

Julie

Black and white illustration of Julie. A portrait. Julie is smiling at you. Julie has short cropped hair and wears glasses and is wearing a check outfit.

Founder of Active Inclusion: Equity in Employment. Driver of development, funding, projects, partnerships, intentional engagement and turning ideas into action.

Sally

A black and white portrait illustration of Sally smiling at you. Sally has a curly bob hair cut and is wearing a necklace and a patterned dress.

Producer of our community. The creative force of co-production and building us a interconnected community to support us all to put co-production into action, beyond our community.

Raisa

A black and white illustration of Raisa smiling at you. Raisa is wearing a Hijab and a spotted top.

Is our Poet in Residence and Safeguarding & #WaysOfWorking Model. She is a writer and poet who focuses her work on disability and intersectionality whilst investigating the impact of language used around disabled people and about disabled people – enabling us all to create simultaneous physically and psychologically safe spaces.

Theo

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Is a new member to our team. He is a creative co-producer and is developing skills in storytelling and using creative methods for us to share language of #StoriesOfWork.

Karen

A close up black and white illustration portrait of Karen. Karen has long flowing wavy hair and is wearing a dark top. Karen is looking at you smiling.

Is our Co-Founder. Karen directs our strategic vision. keeping us focused and on track in our disruptor space. It’s not easy doing something out of the status quo – Karen guides us with patience and care as well as practical logic and sense making.

Vijay

A black and white illustration Vijay. A portrait of him, looking at you smiling. Vijay has short cropped hair and is wearing a jacket and a top with a short collar.

Is our trainer on using AI to create web programming. He is training in web programming. He is working with Active Inclusion to develop a budget tracker as part of his course. He analyses interviews for stories and creates story maps for our content.

Kaye

Is our mentorship ally, and is a sponsor of our website. Kaye has been instrumental in supporting and training our team in digital accessibility. She has helped us learn that we are human and we are always learning. That our website will grow with us and become accessible in many different formats as we grow, learn and gain new skills.

Oli

Our content and ‘behind the scenes’ framework and programming expert for our website. Supporting us to learn skills in how to communicate on this platform, and how to use WordPress.

Julie Ryder

Is our supporter and friend who offers time and expertise to help us to learn and train in: how to work with people who are blockers and an introduction to BSL. She has been sponsoring our fundraising scoping work and is part of our sense-making and strategic team. She supports us around work, family and life.

#WaysOfWorking #StoriesOfWork

Our Community

An illustration of eight people in our community. Headed: Active Inclusion: Equity in Employment. Each person listed: Julie, Raisa, Sally, Vijay, Kirsty, Karen, Praveen and Matthew have a head shot illustration of them in black and white drawn illustration style.

A community two years in the making, we are a vast network of collaborators defined by movement. People drop in, lend their craft to our collective goals, and move on—but the work we build together remains a constant, growing testament to our shared vision.

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OUR STORIES

All illustrations on this page apart from Theo’s individually designed illustration, are created by Generated Closed AI in Canva April 2026.