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Samantha is an actress, broadcaster, writer, disability rights campaigner, diversity and inclusion consultant and keynote speaker. And her story starts when she is born with a rare genetic condition Osteogenesis Imperfecta - commonly known as Brittle Bones condition.
Having started her career as a teacher Samantha is now a regular face on our TV screens and skilfully uses her own lived experience of disability to drive systemic change in the places that matter. She is also an Ambassador for Scope.
During lockdown, Samantha wrote her first book ‘You Are The Best Thing Since Sliced Bread’, published by Ebury Spotlight in 2022 and one of many lines that chimed with me was ‘we must be unapologetically imperfect’.
She uses, what I call, her ‘obstinacity’ (a mash up of obstinance and tenacity) during moments where ...
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