Liam O’Dell is an award-winning freelance journalist and disability campaigner. He currently works as a freelance news reporter for trending news site indy100, part of The Independent, and from 2016 to 2023, he produced regular articles for deaf outlet The Limping Chicken, with his coverage of the #WhereIsTheInterpreter campaign winning him the Young Freelancer Award from the Association and the Self-Employed (IPSE) in 2021.
His work has also featured in The Verge, Metro.co.uk, The Guardian, The Stage and The Independent, with his response to YouTube content creator Mr Beast’s video on “curing” deafness attracting international media attention.
Liam’s debut non-fiction book on trust in autism research, titled Selling Out the Spectrum, will be published by Jessica Kingsley Publishers in late 2024.
Alongside writing, Liam is available as a public speaker, having moderated panels at Summer in the City and the Almeida Theatre’s Shifting Tides festival. He delivered his first ever TEDx talk at TEDxBrayfordPool in Lincoln in November 2017, titled ‘How to control your labels, and when to let them define you‘.
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