London, partially deaf Italian super manager among the “Top 100 Influencers Disability”

In Italy, only 35.8% of disabled people aged 15 to 64 able to work are employed. He told this to Ilfattoquotidiano.it is Enrico Seta, president of the National Disability and Work Agency. The average European Union employment rate for people with disabilities is over 50%. There are also virtuous cases in the world. One is told by the Corriere della Sera. It is that of Maria Grazia Zedda, 50 years old from Cagliari who lives and works in London.

Mother of two teenage girls, she has worked in inclusion programs in the US, San Francisco and Philadelphia, as well as Bologna.

In London it entered the «Top 100 Influencers Disability»In 2019, among the top 10 in the public sector. She is deaf, this is the correct term that she wants us to use.

“I have always had the urge to want to change society’s approach to people considered second class. In addition, the recognition came in time of Brexit, a decision that deeply grieved me: to obtain a recognition that made me” belong ” to England gave me hope, I understood that I could be an example for many other people with disability: from that moment they could think that if I had made it, they could too ».

Work in the High Speed 2, high-speed rail project. IS senior manager for Equal Opportunities with the task of working on programs for inclusion in a staff of about 1,800 employees. «I help the various departments to produce inclusive policies through targeted programs, such as reverse mentoring: in this case, I support a junior employee who expresses any diversity in terms of ethnicity, sex, religion, disability, with a member of the executive; in this way the younger becomes the mentor of the older and helps him to be more sensitive ».

With her husband she created the e-learning program adopted by the English Parliament and that evenings to understand and try to eliminate the psychological and physical barriers experienced by people with disabilities. He discovered that his severe hearing problems in elementary school: he invented the words because he did not hear what the teacher said.

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