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About Dr Butler
Dr Katie Butler is a community development practitioner, disability inclusion specialist and social researcher. Driven to advance equity, opportunity and inclusion, she concurrently focuses on improving organisational policy and practice for inclusivity and working directly within diverse communities to build empowerment and community connectedness.
Katie has worked in the human services sector across local government, not-for-profit and higher education since 2012. She currently works at the University of Newcastle as an Equity, Diversity and Inclusion Coordinator. Katie was born with bilateral Peters Anomaly. She gets about with her wonderful Seeing Eye Dog Quinnie and uses screen reading software and electronic braille to work and research.
As a proud blind professional and academic, Katie strongly advocates for and works to enable disabled leadership in research, policy development and service design and delivery.