Tracey is a disabled person with 17 years of experience working in a variety of user led disabled people's organizations promoting disability equality, user involvement and the social model of disability.She joined the team as Chief executive in July 2011.

Tracey is passionate about user led Deaf and disabled people's organisations as both an essential expression of choice, control and self determination but also as the most effective way of delivering services and support to Deaf and disabled people through the added value that peer run services provides.

Tracey has a degree in Philosophy and Politics and her interests include hill walking, cosmology and watching Arsenal football club whenever she can.

Geraldine job shares the Strategic Development Officer (with Tess McManus) works 3 days a week. Geraldine has been involved in the Deaf community and disabled peoples movement for over 25 years and has worked with different Deaf and disabled peoples organizations as a staff member and trustee.

Tess has been part of the disabled people’s movement for over 15 years, spending over 10 years working fora grass roots DDPO (Disability Action in Islington) as training, consultancy and project manager. Here, she developed a successful income generation arm which worked in partnership with numerous local disabled consultants. She is an experienced Disability Equality Trainer and has worked across the voluntary, local authority and private sectors, helping organisations to dvelope a sensible and sustainable approach to making services, employment and volunteering opportunities accessible to disabled people.

In 2009, she was part of a voluntary sector delegation to Japan. In addition to working at Inclusion London, she continues to work as a freelance trainer and consultant, helping organisations to be accessible.  

Outside of work, she enjoys sailing and being by the sea.

Kirsten Hearn is an experienced advisor to government and key agencies as a non-executive director for the last 12 years. Currently she is an external member of the Office for Disability Issues Disability Delivery board and a member of the Disability Committee of the Equality and Human Rights Commission.    She is the chair of Inclusion London, the Deaf and Disabled People’s organisations community interest company, and is a trustee (and former vice-chair) of the consortium of LGBT Community and Voluntary organisations.  
Kirsten Was an Independent member of the Metropolitan Police Authority from 2002 until it’s abolition in January 2012 where she chaired the equality and diversity sub-committee and co chaired the Domestic and Sexual Violence Board. For eight years (from 2000), Kirsten was a member of the Transport for London Board where she championed social inclusion. Kirsten helped set up Equality 2025 (the UK Advisory Network on Disability Equality,) and served as a member for three years (2006/2009), providing disability equality advice at the heart of government.  She was a member of the Arts Council England Independent Disability Equality Advisory Group for 18 months (till March 2011) and a member of the LGBT Advisory Group to the Metropolitan Police Service from 2000 to 2002.
For sixteen years, Kirsten was an Equality specialist and senior manager in local government before escaping the day job to create and run Whole World Design, a successful empowerment coaching and training consultancy, specialising in evolutionary change with a smile.
Kirsten has two fine art degrees, is a Neuro-Linguistic Master Practitioner and NLP coach.  She is also a stand-up comic, singer, musician, writer, sculptor, broadcaster, tree-lover and bird-fancier.   She is standing as a Labour List member for the Greater London Authority in the 2012 Mayoral and Assembly elections.
Kirsten is a blind lesbian and campaigner for peace, human rights and justice and is a supporter of non-violent direct action.  Her mission in life is to celebrate the lives of and promote the rights of disadvantaged people at every opportunity.

Francis was born and spent his early childhood in Australia, moving to Wales with his family at the age of ten. He has lived in various parts of Wales including Aberystwyth (where he obtained a BSc Econ. (Hons) in Accounting & Finance 1992 - 1996, and later an MSc in Computer Science 2001 - 2003), Lampeter and Cardiff where he began his career in Accounting. Before joining Scope in January 2008, he had previously seven years working in accountancy practice and two years working for a major independent publisher of poetry.  Francis worked for six months in the Scope finance department before the opportunity came to join the Disability LIB project.  In his time there his proudest achievements have been to have become a qualified certified accountant and successfully ascended Ben Nevis with a wheelchair user as part of the Ben Nevis Beyond Boundaries Challenge in May 2008 (as part of a team of course!).  This event and his work subsequently on the Disability LIB project have helped him to understand himself as a disabled person, to meet and appreciate a wide variety of other disabled people and to gain a sense of the history and achievements of disabled people.

His interests include mountain walking, badminton and tai chi and is also a keen on swimming having learnt to swim at the age of 24 after a couple of perilous experiences as a child!

She is skilled in and has over 16 year’s experience of project and people management, recruitment and retention, financial management, representation and marketing. Caroline is a Disability Right Advocate and a Disability Equality Trainer (DET). Part of the training offered includes "customer care" to taxi drivers which was funded by Transport for London.

Caroline has several interests including reading and researching Deaf women’s history, art and cultureInstrumental in the development and the implementation of the London Borough of Hackney's Disability Equality Scheme, she continues to be involved in the monitoring of the scheme. She also represents and promotes the interest of deaf and disabled people through her involvement on various strategic boards, such as Hackney's Disability Board and the Health and Social Care Forum.

Caroline is responsible for the establishment of Hackney African Caribbean Disability Association, which she chaired for 6 years. In 1995, she was the public relations officer of Organisation of Blind African Carribean - campaigning for services to be culturally sensitive to the Black Community.

Caroline has a degree in "Government and Sociology". She's a blind person and a mother of two.

I am a disability civil and human rights activist. My current role is being the Campaigns and Policy Cordinator for Alliance for Inclusive Education which campaigns for the rights of all disabled learners to participate in mainstream education. Before joining ALLFIE, I was United Kingdom’s Disabled Peoples Council and People First’s campaigns worker which included achieving inclusion of people with learning difficulties in disability discrimination and direct payments and fighting against welfare and mental health reform legislation. Additionally I have worked on disabled peoples equal rights to life campaigns with the Not Dead Yet. I am on Transport for London’s Independent Disability Advisory Group. I am also Changing Perspectives Director, which provides training and consultancy services on disabled people’s issues. In my spare time Simone is completing a PHD in Education - social justice and qualifications at Kings College, London University.

She as in depth experience of integrated business planning, governance, risk assessment and change management and property management.

Sharon is a mental health service user and supports the recovery ethos of mental health care practice.

She has a creative “can do” approach. Her work style is democratic and she values constructive criticism. Outwardly she displays a lot of self confidence but her working practice is  adaptive, and versatile.

Currently CEO of Shape Arts – based in London.  Prior to this recent appointment ten years as Director of Holton Lee in Dorset, developing a 350 acre site leading down to the shores of Poole harbour, creating short-stay residential accommodation with exhibition spaces, gallery, and studios and NDACA (the National Disability Arts Collection and Archive).

Board and Access group involvement with Tate, Whitechapel Gallery, The National Archive and the Richard Attenborough Centre.

Previous incarnations with NACAB, Citizens Advice and RADAR, the Royal Association for Disability and Rehabilitation, an independent record retailer and graduate of Lancaster University.  

Lead Artist on the Art-Plus, Art in Public Places Award with Zoe Partington-Sollinger and Dada South. This £50,000 award resulted in the creation of the sculpture, “Squarinthecircle? 2008. Situated outside the school of architecture at Portsmouth University.

Work featured in DAO, DAM, DAiL and Disability Now magazines, profiled in “From the Edge" programme for BBC TV, Director David Heavey and "Moving from within" video, Director Chris Ledger.

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