'Lived experience': finally, a disability reporter who has a disability
Campanella is coming up to 10 years at the national broadcaster and has embraced her “second dream job” after seven and a half years as Triple J’s newsreader. She was born sighted but at six months of age blood vessels burst in the back of her eyes, which detached her retinas and left her blind. She also has a muscle condition, Charcot-Marie-Tooth neuropathy or CMT, which means she is unable to read braille. She uses aural technology to read. “I was thrilled when I was asked to do the disability round because having a person with lived experience in that position meant there was a lev...
Source: theguardian.com