Marcia Brissett-Bailey
known as @theblackdyslexic
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Marcia Brissett-Bailey — known as @theblackdyslexic — is an award-winning author, editor of Black, Brilliant, and Dyslexic, and internationally renowned speaker featured in Forbes. Named one of the Top 50 Influential Neurodivergent Women (2022) and Top 80 Neurodiversity Evangelists in the UK (2023), she is a passionate advocate for dyslexic and neurodivergent young people, championing self-esteem, confidence, and representation through an intersectional lens.
Marcia co-founded the Cultural Perspective Committee within the British Dyslexia Association, serves as a trustee of the Waltham Forest Dyslexia Association, and holds advisory roles at the Centre for Neurodiversity at Work and Neurodiversity in Business. With over three decades in education — from primary to higher education, including a SENDIASS role in a London local authority — she now works as a consultant and Further Education Partnership Lead at Diversity and Ability.
