Sigrid Arnade

Sigrid Arnade (2013)

Until January 2020, Sigrid Arnade (* 1956 ) was the managing director of the advocacy group Self-Determined Living in Germany eV - ISL and is an activist for the rights of disabled people, especially disabled women.

Career

The doctor with a doctorate in veterinary medicine has been dependent on a wheelchair to move around since 1986 and has since worked as a journalist, moderator and project manager with a focus on “disabled women”, “legal equality” and “accessible nature experience”. She is co-founder of the German Disability Council, in whose working committee she represented the Weibernetz eV for a long time and now the ISL eV For the German Disability Council, she participated in the negotiations on the UN Disability Rights Convention (BRK) in New York and, above all, advocated the inclusion of gender - / Women's perspective used in the BRK. Outside of work, she co-founded three associations and a foundation. She is currently active on a voluntary basis on the boards of NETZWERK ARTIKEL 3, the LEBENSNERV Foundation and the women's council of the Heinrich Böll Foundation.

Honors

As a champion for the rights of disabled women, she was awarded the Federal Cross of Merit on Ribbon in 2004 and the Federal Cross of Merit 1st Class in 2010. Since 2004 she has been the recipient of the Binding Prize for nature and environmental protection .

Fonts (selection)

• Neither kisses nor career. Experiences of disabled women. Fischer Taschenbuch Verlag, Frankfurt aM 1992
• Model management plan on the subject of "accessibility" using the example of the Berchtesgaden National Park. Berchtesgaden National Park 2006
• Getting involved Getting involved. Information brochure for disabled girls and women. BMFSFJ, Berlin 2007

Web links

• Brief portrait