EP31 - Advocating for disability rights ft. Aroni and Kabery Sultana

Nabanoor

My beautiful and talented guest Kabery Sultana is with us on the 31st episode of the #Nabanoor #podcast and we are so excited to have her. She is an artist who completed her BFA and MFA From Jahangirnagar University with a major in Drawing & Painting. She is now well-known as a disability rights specialist and activist. Her advocacy work for people with disabilities revolves around accessibility and safety in architecture, transportation, and the physical environment; equal opportunities in independent living, employment equity, education, and housing; and freedom from discrimination, abuse, neglect, and from other rights violations.
Kabery is currently working as a National UN Volunteer Specialist while also working as a chairperson of MDPOD (Manikganj Disabled People’s Organization to Development). She is also the Founder of the Advocacy Group for Person’s with Disability, Jahangirnagar University.
This multi-talented human being is also an acclaimed Reciter, and Recitation trainer and was the Ex-vice president of “Dhoni” (2017 to 2018), Jahangirnagar University.
Apart from her huge resume she also dipped her toes in the beauty pageant scene of Bangladesh and became the Semi-Finalist of Codomo Miss Evergreen Bangladesh in 2023.