How a cousin’s disability inspired an inclusive housing organisation
- Date: Tue, Dec 3, 2024
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By Kate Hodge, Former commissioning editor, Special Reports, Financial Times
Image: Kelsey Flynn O’Connor, left, whose name lives on at The Kelsey, a non-profit organisation developed by Micaela Connery, right
An MBA graduate used her skills to build The Kelsey, a non-profit named in her relative’s honour.
Micaela Connery was just three months old when her cousin, Kelsey Flynn O’Connor, was born with multiple and severe disabilities. Growing up together, Connery “understood the world through a lens of disability”, witnessing up close the importance of inclusion, access and rights.
That theme became a “through line” in Connery’s life. At the age of 15, she launched Unified Theater, a schools-based performing arts programme that brings together people with and without disabilities.
Later, continuing her commitment, Connery went on to study for a masters in public policy at the John F Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University, followed by an MBA at University College Dublin’s Michael Smurfit Graduate School of Business. More...
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