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Simone Aspis: Becoming an Activist

Simone was born in 1969 in Dollis Hill, London. She went to a residential special school in Cheshire from the age of four until sixteen. From there she went on to college and then university.

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Here Simone describes her working life leading her towards campaigning.

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I worked at the BBC for From The Edge for a number of years, decided, you know what, I’m fed up with watching everyone else change the world, I want to get out there and do it myself. So I first – I got into activism at – working with People First which is an organisation run by people with learning difficulties and I was a parliamentary campaigns worker there, ‘cause what really annoyed me was disabled people didn’t have rights, you know.

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