Taylor Budin

Casual Educator (person with disability and lived experience of the justice system)
Intellectual Disability Rights Service Inc

Taylor Budin is an outstanding New South Wales based disability and justice advocate with the Intellectual Disability Rights Service.  Taylor has been working to highlight the cruel inhuman and degrading treatment and in 2023 co-hosted the National Forum on Cruel Inhuman and Degrading Treatment of People with Disability in Australia’s Places of Detention and lectures at the University of New South Wales to Criminology students on disability and justice issues.  Taylor speaks publicly about her story of detention and what needs to change to better protect women with disability in detention.  Taylor has contributed to international journals and submissions to the United Nations Special Rapporteur for Torture on disability and justice issues.