Risnawati Utami

Risnawati Utami became the first person from her native Indonesia to sit on the United Nations Committee on the Rights of Persons With Disabilities and is the executive director of Ohana Indonesia, aimed to provide disability rights, policy advocacy and technical assistance for local governments on dealing with disability in her hometown of Yogyakarta and across Indonesia. Utami has led the Indonesian Consortium for Disability Rights, which has 45 organization members representing eight provinces, to push for CRPD implementation at the local and national level. On the international level, her work has helped get more than 160 countries to sign and ratify the treaty.