Interview
Charlotte Vuyiswa McClain-Nhlapo Global Disability Advisor at the World Bank
“ Ensuring that every child
has access to an inclusive and equitable education contributes to breaking the cycle of poverty and leaving no one behind. ”
Questions by Michelle Daley, ALLFIE Director 1. Tell us about yourself and what led into your field of interest? I am a Black Woman with a disability; I identify as African-American. I use a wheelchair due to having been involved in a car crash that left me paralyzed from the waist down. I am also an omnivert. I relish my introverted self and similarly love people. I was born in the tiny African Kingdom of Eswatini; I grew up in Zambia, Lesotho, and went to High School in Eswatini- very much third culture.
My father is a white American from Indiana, my mother is Black, and Xhosa from South Africa. This factoid is relevant because my parents were active anti-apartheid activists, and I grew up understanding the hideousness of apartheid as an unjust and vicious system of oppression. I felt the consequences of segregation and racism brought on by the apartheid state.
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