This is a list of influencers we follow at ACL to make sure the data on our personal hard-drives (our brains!) is up to date. These people share their own lived experiences on social media platforms such as LinkedIn and Instagram as a means of educating and sharing their own knowledge with their followers.

We’ve grouped them by the topics they talk about so you can easily choose to follow influencers that are going to hit your biases with new insights. It’s not an exhaustive list by any means, so check back every now and again; we’ll update this list periodically as we follow new content creators.

Welcome to… ‘The List’

Ethnicity & racism

Dr. Raquel Martin

Dr Martin sits with her chin resting on her hand, smiling, facing the camera. She is a black woman, with short curly hair, large red glasses and earrings, and is wearing a white jacket and black blouse.

Where to begin, without fanboying about Dr. Martin!

A family psychologist and creator of social justice and Mental Health content, she talks about Racism related stress, and the lived experience of black people and their families.

George Lee Jr.

George is stood against a brick wall. He is a a young Black man with braids that reach past his shoulders and is wearing a blue T-shirt. He is smiling and has red, green and gold threads woven into three of his braids.

With over 560 videos George Lee Jr. challenges stereotypes and explains concepts including cultural appropriation, white supremacy and Indigenous erasure among others. If you want a different perspective on politics and current affairs, George Lee Jr. is your go to guy.

Ashani Mfuko

Ashani stands in front of a pink background, with a wide smile and her hands firmly on her hips. She is a Black woman with shoulder length hair and is wearing a red and black dress and red earrings.

Ashani Mfuko is an anti racism coach. She talks to her audience about their role in challenging racism and becoming actively anti-racist, with specific things to start and stop doing, including getting comfortable with discomfort in talking about racism.

Gender & misogyny

Cyzor

Cyzor is a Black man with his long hair gathered on top of his head. He is facing the camera with head and shoulders in frame and his fingers to his right temple. HE wears a black T-shirt and is holding our gaze.

This one’s for all the men in the room - Cyzor addresses aspects of misogyny and the role men play in its perpetuation. He questions ideas of masculinity and what it means to be a man in today’s world, while challenging his audience with ways to be better.

The female lead

The words 'The Female Lead' are in rows top to bottom, with Female in a teal coloured arrow shaped box and Lead in a blue coloured arrow shape box.

The Female Lead is an education charity posting regular content focussed around their six pillars of feminism - self, relationships, health, work, money and society. Sometimes funny, often serious, their content provokes thought around the issues faced by women around the world.

Neurodiversity

Laura Barito

Laura is sat on a red couch. She has peroxide blonde hair, dark red lipstick and a black dress. In her left hand she is holding up a skull

Laura Barito is a weightlifter with an M.S. in Exercise Physiology. Her content talks about her own journey with Autism and ADHD as well as challenging stereotypes around gender.

Martin Balsby Nordahl Moxness

Martin is smiling at the camera while holding up a stuffed penguin soft toy. He has dark hair and an olive complexion and is wearing a black t-shirt with a waving penguin on it that says 'send noots'.

Martin Balsby Nordahl Moxness creates and shares content explaining his personal experiences of ADHD, Autism and Tourette’s. His content is short-burst, engaging, and informative, explaining his 144K followers!

Disability

Toby Addison

Toby is standing against a grey background. He has a muscled pysique and is wearing a pale grey t-shirt that says Hymshark on it. He is turned away from the camera. He is a young man in his mid-twenties and has his hair in a quiff.

Toby is a disability advocate and blind footballer who creates content exploring his experiences as a blind person. His content focusses on busting some of the myths about blindness as well as demonstrating his own personal lived experience

Samantha Baines

Samantha is smiling to camera with a raised eyebrow. She is a white woman whith brown hair, borwn eyes and a nose piercing. She is wearing a green shirt.

Samantha Baines is a Deaf comic, author and actor. Her content explores her lived experiences as well and gives useful information for people wanting to know more about the experiences of deaf people.

Joseph Bird

Joseph is stood shirtless in front of a wall of red, white, black and gold graffiti. He is a white brown haired and bearded man with a very muscled physique.

Joseph Bird describes himself as a ’disability advocate spreading positivity on disability and challenging stereotypes’. He does this through his content focussing on his own fitness journey and his experience living with Cerebral Palsy.

Jon Urquhart

John is a smiling white man in his mid twenties. He is wearing a black t-shirt and has dark hair and blue eyes.

Jon Urquhart talks about the lived experience of the Deaf community, through his own perspective as a CODA (Child of Deaf Adults). HIs content explores he importance of representation as well as busting myths about people who are Deaf or Hard of Hearing.

LGBTQIA+

Schuyler Bailar

A Trans man, Schuyler Bailar creates and shares informative content answering many of the questions people have about Trans people and their lived experiences. If there’s anything you want answered about the Trans experience, chances are Schuyler has created content about it!.