Lesley is a retired nurse and a former Green Party councillor.

She helped raise the profile of access needs in the city centre by organising access walks and highlighting barriers to access that were largely unnoticed by those not affected. The severe disability and premature death of her first child was her initiation into the issues and injustices faced by disabled people. It has made her passionate about inclusion not as a theory but as experience and says that 'the political is personal, local and global'. She is proud to be part of a movement of movements, from nurturing street-based community groups looking after their local areas and taking direct action inside a military base to stop cluster bombs being deployed, to supporting Quaker initiatives practising quiet diplomacy and peacemaking.

Lesley chose a picture with a microphone, as she's normally on the other side of the camera, and because 'for a shy person, finding your voice is one the most challenging and empowering things you can do in a world where silence means siding with the powerful against the rest'.

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