Lydia Shula

Lydia is a Senior Manager and has managed multiple projects in disability advocacy and inclusion during her time with MIUSA.  She is an expert in cross-disability inclusion and has managed USAID and U.S. Department of State-sponsored technical assistance projects, working with local Disabled People’s Organizations in Armenia, Guatemala, Kenya, Mexico, Nepal, Peru and Vietnam to strengthen the implementation and enforcement of disability rights legislation and the U.N. Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (CRPD). She has also managed exchange programs for professionals, youth, and women with disabilities, and led delegations on outbound programs to Bahrain, Costa Rica, Jordan, and Spain. From 2006 – 2013 she organized MIUSA’s signature international Women’s Institute on Leadership and Disability (WILD) programs, which brings together grassroots women leaders with disabilities from around the world. Lydia has a degree in International Studies: Comparative Community Development from the University of Oregon. Born in the U.S., she grew up in Rotorua, New Zealand and studied in Khon Kaen, Thailand.