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Barr. Edeh Catherine Chinyere is the CEO of Voice of Disability Initiative (VDI), an organisation that advocates for disability inclusion and promotes sexual and reproductive health rights. Edeh is an alumna of the Humphrey School of Public Affairs, University of Minnesota USA. She hails from Enugu State, Nigeria. With vast experience in advocacy and activism, Catherine is a home-bred post-lingual Deaf lawyer who bagged her NCE, LL.B Hons and B.L in Nigeria. Edeh has addressed many leaders from various parts of the globe on disability inclusion and gender equality. She coaches, mentors and counsels young people and women with disabilities. She is also a Mandela Washington Fellow (MWF), Public Manager and Young African Leader and has served the World Federation of the Deaf (WFD) as Expert on Disaster Risk Reduction. Her very existence lends credence to the concept of ‘ability in disability. She is passionate and dedicated to ensuring children, women and youth with disabilities are enabled to be the best they can be. Kate (Keight) as she is called is one strong lady who has surmounted countless untold obstacles and believes persons with disabilities have so much to offer in changing the world that she shares in Archimedes's very thought and message "give us a lever and a place to stand and we will move the earth. Give us a fulcrum, and we shall move the world". She is the board secretary.