Jamie Shields

Principal Disability Accessibility & ERG Lead, AMS

Northern Ireland, Northern Ireland

About me

I am Disabled By Society, not because of my sight loss. Not because I am Autistic and not because I'm Neruodivergent.

I am Disabled by the inaccessibility, the ableism and the exclusion. The exclusion of Disabled People. We are seen and treated as an afterthought, a burden, a problem to be solved, but I say no more.

Working at AMS gave me my voice. It helped me overcome a lifetime of internalized ableism, and it helped me bring my lived experience to my role.

28 Nov, 2023

The A before IDPWD

By Jamie Shields

Being Disabled always felt like a dirty, shameful thing. Something to hide, something to cover up, something to deny. “I have bad...

Catalyst

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An Eye on Tomorrow

Jamie Shields

About me

The A before IDPWD

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