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Drisana Levitzke-Gray
Australian disability rights campaigner
Drisana Levitzke-Gray (born 1993[1]) is an Australian disability rights campaigner from Perth, Western Australia.
She is an advocate for deaf culture, and a native speaker of Auslan.[2] In 2015, she was the Young Australian of the Year.[3]
Personal life
Levitzke-Gray was born from a line of deaf women, and is the fifth woman on her line to be deaf or partially deaf: great, great-grandmother Eva Johnston, her daughter Dorothy Shaw, Danielle Shaw, Patricia Levitzke-Gray, and herself.[2] Her father is also deaf, and she has a deaf brother.[2]
Deaf culture
Levitzke-Gray was selected in 2011 by Deaf Australia to attend the World Federation of the Deaf Youth Section Leadership Camp in Durban, South Africa, and the World Federation of the Deaf General Assembly.[2]
Levitzke-Gray attended the Frontrunners[4] international deaf youth leadership c