Tara Flood is a disability rights activist and has been the Director at the Alliance for Inclusive Education since April 2006. Tara has been involved with the disability rights movement at a grass-roots level, for the last 14 years, and she is committed to creating social and political change, that will deliver equality for all disabled people at a local, regional, national, European and international level.

Tara was involved in the discussions at the United Nations in the development of the new UN Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities and is now working to get the Convention fully implemented.

Tara works with organisations led by disabled people, allied organisations, children’s rights organisations, statutory agencies and Government departments, both in a personal and professional capacity, and is committed to the voices and experiences of ALL disabled people being at the heart of discussions and decision making about our lives. Tara is a disabled person and a ‘special’ school survivor.