Local podcast host, Evie Roberts, has been shortlisted for The Shaw Trust Disability Power 100.
The Shaw Trust Disability Power 100, is a platform for change and each year recognises the most influential disabled people in the UK.
Past winners include: Baroness Tanni Grey-Thompson, Alex Brooker, Rose Ayling Ellis, Nikki Fox, and Stephen Hawking.
Shortlisted
The Ballakermeen student has already had some incredible guests on her podcast, Talking in the Dark, including Fearne Cotton, the BBC’s chief political news correspondent for North America, Gary O’Donoghue, and Stephen Fry.
Evie’s drama teacher, Ste Craigne, has played an integral part supporting Evie with the podcast, and helped the youngster on her way, to what I for one do not doubt, a path of stardom.
The judging for the Shaw Trust Disability Power 100 takes place over the next couple of months.
Talking in the Dark
To say Evie is your average podcast host is doing her a massive injustice.
Not only has she an exceptionally engaging voice, she’s a talented musician and plays the flute for the Manx Youth Orchestra along with being a budding horse rider with Riding for the Disabled (RDA).
The fourteen year old who attends Ballakermeen High School has a genetic condition called bilateral anopthalmia which has meant that she has been blind since birth, during the interview Evie explains in her own humorous way what the condition is:
“I have the eye socket, but when it came to developing the actual eye and optic nerve my body went no not going to do that, can’t be bothered. So instead I wear prosthetic eyes.”
Evie hopes that the podcast helps remove the stigma around all disabilities, she told me that as a blind person she finds that people can sometimes be scared to talk to her for fear of saying or doing the wrong thing.
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