Storyteller
I’m on a mission to make the world more equitable for disabled people.
British TV host and disability advocate, Sophie (she/her) is best known for presenting the Paralympics, award-winning documentaries, and live-event broadcasts. Sophie recently made history as one of the first disabled women to host for NBC Sports in the US. She co-founded Making Space, a talent acquisition and learning platform, and Making Space Media, a disabled and female-led production company, partnered with Reese Witherspoons’ ‘Hello Sunshine’. Together, they co-produced the critically acclaimed documentary Fight to Fly, which follows Sophie as she holds the aviation industry to account for shocking failings to disabled travellers, and, in her mission to make air travel and space accessible for all, sees her become the first paralysed woman to go to Zero Gravity.
As an avid traveller herself, she writes a monthly column for Condé Nast Traveler, for whom she also serves on the Global Advisory Board. She published her bestselling memoir Driving Forwards in 2021, soon to be a TV series. Voted one of the most influential disabled people in the UK, she lives between London and LA.
Despite being paralysed, Sophie rarely sits still and keeps extremely busy riding my modified motorbike all over the USA, adventuring and trying new experiences. She also loves to paint and draw and, above all else, to dance and rave with friends!
My favourite TED talk:
The opportunity of adversity
Aimee Mullins
Storyteller
I’m on a mission to make the world more equitable for disabled people.
British TV host and disability advocate, Sophie (she/her) is best known for presenting the Paralympics, award-winning documentaries, and live-event broadcasts. Sophie recently made history as one of the first disabled women to host for NBC Sports in the US. She co-founded Making Space, a talent acquisition and learning platform, and Making Space Media, a disabled and female-led production company, partnered with Reese Witherspoons’ ‘Hello Sunshine’. Together, they co-produced the critically acclaimed documentary Fight to Fly, which follows Sophie as she holds the aviation industry to account for shocking failings to disabled travellers, and, in her mission to make air travel and space accessible for all, sees her become the first paralysed woman to go to Zero Gravity.
As an avid traveller herself, she writes a monthly column for Condé Nast Traveler, for whom she also serves on the Global Advisory Board. She published her bestselling memoir Driving Forwards in 2021, soon to be a TV series. Voted one of the most influential disabled people in the UK, she lives between London and LA.
Despite being paralysed, Sophie rarely sits still and keeps extremely busy riding my modified motorbike all over the USA, adventuring and trying new experiences. She also loves to paint and draw and, above all else, to dance and rave with friends!
My favourite TED talk:
The opportunity of adversity
Aimee Mullins