Tewai Skipwith-Halatau (Ngāti Tuhourangi, Te Arawa) works tirelessly alongside Māori and Pacific communities so they can advocate for their individual and collective needs. She is the manager of Vision Pacific Charitable Trust, the founding co-chair of the pacific Disability forum and a Paralympic medalist. Skipwith-Halatau is blind. She talks to Áine about growing up with a mix of specialised and mainstream schooling, working out how to fight the employment biases blind women faced in the 70s, the power of sport, and strengthening disability advocacy throughout the Pacific Islands.

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Generations of Change is a seven-part series where disabled leaders dive deep into their round-about journeys into spearheading all kinds of change towards a more accessible, inclusive world. Journalist and advocate Áine Kely-costello, as a Generation z disabled person, asks about growing up disabled forty or fifty years ago or acquiring disability as an adult. How has Aotearoa changed, or not, in the meantime? What unplanned moments would shape the lives of the visionary disabled people who dedicated themselves to making inclusion the norm?

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Generations of change is Developed and funded by Imagine Better. It is also broadcast on Wellington Access Radio. It features song Siva by Joom. The series was edited by Juliana Machado with visual direction by Benjamin Brooking. Produced by Áine Kelly-Costello.