Stella Young: Why she kicks ass

• She is a comedian and disability advocate.
• She is an Editor of ABC’s Ramp Up website, the online space for news, discussion and opinion about disability in Australia.
• She began her disability activism at 14 when she conducted an access audit of the shops in the local main street.
• She is a member of the Victorian Disability Advisory Council, Ministerial Advisory Council for the Department of Victorian communities and Women With Disabilities Victoria.
• She is a two-time state finalist in the Melbourne International Comedy Festival’s Raw Comedy competition.
• She has hosted eight seasons of Australia’s first disability culture program No Limits, which aired on Channel 31 and community stations across the country.
• She has worked with 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. 
• Before joining the ABC, she worked in Public Programs at Melbourne Museum, where she taught kids about bugs, dinosaurs and other weird and wonderful things about the world.
• She was part of the global atheist convention in Melbourne during April 2012.
• Places you can find her: website, twitter, youtube, archive of ABC articles written by Stella, Don’t Look Past My Disabled Body - I Love It, Ramp Up (the website she is an editor of), Eulogy For A Wheelchair.