Atif Choudhury

Atif is an advisor to the WHO Rapid Assistive Technologies board and active in disability policy work with global partners and international organisations. In the UK, his work to strengthen participation and tackle disabling poverty has fostered partnerships with homelessness NGOs including Citizens Online, St Mungo’s and Crisis, as well as the Government’s Tackling Loneliness Network through the Department for Culture, Media and Sport.

Atif’s own lived experience has committed him to creating a world where psychological safety is taken seriously, lived experience is centred, and disabling barriers are dismantled. He delivers workshops and talks at events and conferences across the globe, sharing the urgency of establishing intersectionality inclusive environments, and is recognised as a change-maker in mental health and global disability justice.

“If it’s not intersectional in its understanding of the barriers people face, how can it be relevant in its understanding of the barriers people face? It’s time to end the siloed approaches and conversations, with mental health in one corner, poverty in another, disability in another. For me, and for Diversity and Ability, you can’t separate them. They are disabling barriers and it’s disablement we’re fighting here- it’s participation we’re building here!”

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