Emily Ladau is a passionate disability rights activist, writer, storyteller, and digital communications consultant whose career began at the age of 10, when she appeared on several episodes of Sesame Street to educate children about her life with a physical disability. Her writing has been published in outlets including The New York Times, SELF, Salon, Vice, and HuffPost.Her first book, Demystifying Disability, was published by Ten Speed Press, an imprint of Penguin Random House, in September 2021.Emily has spoken before numerous audiences, from the U.S. Department of Education to the United Nations. Central to all of her work is a focus on and harnessing the power of storytelling as a tool for people to become engaged in disability and social justice issues.Timeline of the podcast:Emily’s call to action: “Disability is not negative or shameful and allyship is action.This podcast was produced by Marsh Naidoo, Makendra Ezell, and Tanya Sierra.Melissa Mittelstaedt provided captioning and transcription at https://www.melissamitt.com/uaccessLink to transcriptRelated resources on the podcast and blog: https://www.raisingkellan.org/the-models-and-language-of-disability/--- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/marsh-naidoo/message