Team
Radical, Anti-Ableist, Anti-Racist, Interdependent, Accessible, Healing, And Regenerative.
Our team is creating a paradigm shift when it comes to Global Majority Disability-led and owned businesses. In an ableist, racist, capitalist, and oppressive world (and traditional business world), we actively choose to do things differently and exist radically.
We don't have the luxury of working and existing in any other way. Our radical and badass Sulaiman leads us. We unapologetically and unconditionally (re)centre Disability (and Disabled people) with Access Intimacy, interdependence, and Revolutionary LOVE®.
We're weaving a new path with anti-ableist creativity through interdependence and care for Disability Liberation. Our friend and Advisor, Cindy Gallop, says it best:
"Shared Values + Shared Action = Shared Profit (that's financial profit and social profit)."
Image Description: Six disabled people of color smile and pose in front of a concrete wall. Five people stand in the back, with a Black woman in the center holding up a chalkboard sign reading "disabled and here." A South Asian person in a wheelchair sits in front. Photo by Chona Kasinger for Disabled And Here.
Executive Team
Sulaiman R. Khan: Founder & Chief Radical Officer
Image Description: A smiling, joyful Sulaiman (wholeheartedly Disabled AF, British-Pakistani man with buzz-cut black hair) sits in his power wheelchair for a portrait by the Brand By Me team. Sulaiman wears his rainbow-coloured mesh jacket over a black shirt with bright pink flamingos. He wears a yellow and black badge that says "Black Disabled Lives Matter" via his dear friend Jennifer White-Johnson. As well as a pure silver chain pendant from his late Nanaji (maternal grandfather). It was made for Sulaiman when he was 15 and was rediscovered in early 2023. The pendant says "Raja Sulaiman" in Urdu, which his Nanaji called him. Sulaiman wears this pendant to remember and honour his late Nanaji, ancestors, and descendants. Sulaiman understands (and respects) that he is the link between his ancestors and descendants.
Tia Denton: Administrative Imaginaire (Creative Administrator)
Image Description: A Black woman smirks in front of a grey background. Tia has long black braided hair tied up in a high ponytail, that falls down her shoulder. Wearing rich red lipstick and neutral eye shadow. Tia wears a grey textured hooded sweater, with drawstrings around the hoodie.
Advisors
Mama: Sulaiman's Mama/Everyone's Mama + All-round Strategic Advisor [whether by blood or bond, family is everything to us]
Cindy Gallop: Consultant + Founder/CEO, MakeLoveNotPorn
Danny Pallett: Freelance Senior Creative | Co-Founder, Badass.Gal
Jessica Oddi: Disabled Designer
Joshua A. Halstead, MA: Designing ways of being
Collette Philip: Founder and Managing Director, Brand By Me
Sana Khan: Freelance Accessibility and Inclusion Consultant
Kelly Gordon: Co-Founder, With Not For