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Stephanie Ortoleva

DOI: 10.7486/DRI.z0302s86z
Title: Stephanie Ortoleva
Description: Stephanie Ortoleva is a lawyer as well as the founder and chief executive of Woman Enabled International, a non-profit organization which works at the intersection of women’s rights and disability rights and educates and advocates internationally for the human rights of women and girls with disabilities. Stephanie is from the United States of America and was visiting lecturer at the NUI Galway Centre for Disability in 2018.; In this interview Stephanie explains her background and reasons behind the foundation of Women Enabled International, the human rights issues of women and girls with disabilities. She details some of the collaborative projects with disabled women organisations worldwide and gives some examples of Women Enabled International’s legal work to date.; This oral history interview was conducted by the Digital Repository of Ireland as part of the Atlantic Philanthropies archive project (2017-2020) titled Amplifying change: A history of the Atlantic Philanthropies on the island of Ireland in 2018. The oral history is related to The Atlantic Philanthropies grant documentation for the Centre for Disability Law and Policy-National University of Ireland Galway.; This recording contains the personal views of the participants, they do not reflect the views of the DRI.
Creators: Digital Repository of Ireland, 2015 -
Interviewee: Stephanie Ortoleva
Interviewer: McGee, Caroline https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3927-5955
Photographer: Mahler, Anja
Transcriber: Ní Chatháin, Bláithín
Creation Date: 2018-06-20
Published by Digital Repository of Ireland: 28/08/2020
Subjects: Curated collection--Oral histories Curated collection--Stephanie Ortoleva Curated collection--Human rights Curated collection--Disability Atlantic Philanthropies (Organization)National University of Ireland, Galway. Centre for Disability Law and Policy Grant 15228 Grant 17402 Disabilty awareness Law reform
Subjects (Places): Galway
Subjects (Temporal): 2008 2011
Types: Collection
Language: English
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Depositing Organisation: Digital Repository of Ireland