Journalist, author and campaigner focusing on disability.
Rachel Charlton-Dailey is an award-winning disabled editor, journalist, and activist, focusing on disability rights, media ableism and disabled life. Her first book Ruby Hastings Writes Her Own Story is published by Collins Big Cat. They live in the northeast of England with their sausage dog Rusty.
As a journalist, Rachel writes a weekly column for The Canary named The Week in Ableist Bullsh*t. She also works on the lifestyle desk one day a week at Metro. She was previously a columnist at The Daily Mirror, where she also guest-edited Disabled Britain. They are also the founder of The Unwritten, for which they won a British Journalism Award. Rachel often pops up on TV, radio and podcasts to weigh in on important disability issues.