Former Stawell woman, Stella Young, will be speaking at one of Australia's biggest ideas festivals, TEDxSydney, later this month.
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Stella will be taking to the TEDxSydney stage to discuss disability. The topic of her talk will be 'Everything you thought about Disability is wrong.'
Stella Young is a comedian, disability advocate and Editor of ABC's Ramp Up website, the online space for news, discussion and opinion about disability in Australia.
Born in Stawell, Stella cut her activist teeth at the age of 14 by conducting an access audit of shops on the local main street.
Since then she has been active in the disability community in a variety of roles, including membership of the Victorian Disability Advisory Council, Ministerial Advisory Council for the Department of Victorian Communities and Women With Disabilities Victoria.
Stella was a two-time state finalist in the Melbourne International Comedy Festival's Raw Comedy competition and has hosted eight seasons of Australia's first disability culture program No Limits.
With a strong interest in issues facing women and young people with disabilities, Stella has worked with the Youth Disability Advocacy Service to establish the LiveAccess project, advocating for better access to live music venues. She holds a degree in Journalism from Deakin University and a Diploma of Secondary Education from the University of Melbourne.
TEDxSydney is an ideas festival involving a number of speakers spreading thought provoking ideas and inspiring personal stories.
The festival has been running for over four years and this year will be held on Saturday, April 26 at the Sydney Opera House.
From using maths to find your perfect sex partner to making failure your best friend, 16 Australians share their remarkable ideas and stories at TEDxSydney.
The program has been curated into themed sessions, featuring 16 Australians who aim to change the world.
Fitting into the themes: Passages, Blood, Enhance and Rethink, each speaker will surprise, challenge, entertain and delight the audience. Talks will range from cutting-edge research around schizophrenia treatment, to a remarkable story from an Australian man teaching children in Kabul how to skateboard. Plus, what influences the way we make decisions, the unlikely relationship between maths and sex, and a reconsideration of the way that we light built environments.
"TED audiences are notoriously engaged, so curating a whole day of talks that interests them is a particularly enjoyable challenge," Editorial Director Edwina Throsby said.
"This year we have brought together some of the best minds, thinkers and storytellers, all from different fields, but all at the very top of their game. Having these brilliant people on the same stage on the same day is pretty exciting, and we are looking forward to sharing new ideas with the TEDxSydney community."