Journalist, actor, presenter, speaker, writer & award-winning disability rights campaigner Adam Pearson.
He has featured in many movies, including BAFTA-nominated Under The Skin alongside Scarlett Johansson. Starring in Chained For Life, praised for his performance, The New York Times described him as “an actor of great charm.”
Adam worked as a researcher for the BBC and Channel 4 before becoming a presenter on the first series of Beauty & The Beast: The Ugly Face Of Prejudice. As well as on the Undateables also on Channel 4 as a casting researcher.
Adam has neurofibromatosis, a condition that affects one in every 2,300 people, which causes non-cancerous tumours to grow on nerve tissue. He has always made the effort to be involved in outreach programmes to prevent bullying associated with deformities.
He is a proud ambassador for Changing Faces, Us In A Bus, Jeans For Genes and The Childhood Tumour Trust.
Adam, who was nominated as UK Documentary Presenter of the Year at the 2016 Grierson Awards, has spoken at a number of events for companies and organisations such as the World Health Innovation Summit, Public Service & Criminology Conference, British Association for Counselling & Psychotherapy, also delivering a TEDx talk. Winning the RADAR Award and a Diana Award for his campaigning work.
Adam was named in The Shaw Trust Power 100 List of 2020 – a list of the UK’s most influential disabled people.
The conversation with Adam is exactly what this platform is for, covering subjects close to both our hearts in a real and meaningful way. The way he is able to articulate all of it while making me laugh out loud was really unique and enjoyable, one of the most interesting people I’ve had the pleasure of speaking to.
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