Why Neurodiversity Works for Creativity won the 2019/2020 WPP Atticus Award in the Creativity with Purpose category. An excerpt was published in The Atticus Journal on 10th November 2020, and was originally published on the Amy Walker Writes Medium blog on 14th November 2019 Amy Walker is Diversity and Inclusion Coordinator at GroupM, and founderContinue reading “Why Neurodiversity Works for Creativity”
Category Archives: Campaigning
Looking For A Job With Autism Made Me Feel Like I Was On The Scrap Heap of Society
Originally published in the Huffington Post for Autism Awareness Week on 12th April 2019 I dropped out of school due my autism, mental health conditions and difficulties with friendships and bullying in year eight — and have been playing catch up ever since. Around 700,000 people in the UK are autistic and yet just 16%Continue reading “Looking For A Job With Autism Made Me Feel Like I Was On The Scrap Heap of Society”
Graduating from Scope for Change
Originally published on the Amy Walker Writes Medium blog on February 15th, 2019 Amy Walker is a neurodiverse, autistic, dyslexic and dyspraxic campaigner, who has been on the Scope for Change campaign training programme since 2018. In this article, she describes the programme’s graduation ceremony and the campaigns that were talked about during the event.Continue reading “Graduating from Scope for Change”
A Week of Speaking Up, a Year of Building Confidence
Originally published on the Amy Walker Writes Medium blog on November 26th, 2018 This time last year, if you had told me that I would be speaking publicly on a regular basis, frankly I would not have believed you. I had just finished a two week Autism Exchange internship in the Civil Service, which hadContinue reading “A Week of Speaking Up, a Year of Building Confidence”
Mental Health Awareness Day: My experience
Originally published on the Amy Walker Writes Medium blog on October 10th, 2018 Yesterday I spoke at A New Direction’s event, Partnerships, Co-production and Compromise. I shared my experience as a young creative, finding my way through an educational system that was inaccessible to an autistic person from a challenging background, and the help I’veContinue reading “Mental Health Awareness Day: My experience”
Campaigning with the Scope for Change programme
Originally published on the Amy Walker Writes Medium blog on September 7th, 2018 A few months ago I was honoured to find out I had been chosen as a #ScopeForChange campaigner. I had been having a tough few months, not getting far with job applications and suddenly a bunch of opportunities arrived at once: theContinue reading “Campaigning with the Scope for Change programme”
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