Amy Wright (activist)

Amy Wright is an American advocate for disabled people who was named 2017 CNN Hero of the Year.

Wright employs forty people with physical and intellectual disabilities at her coffee shop, Bitty and Beau's in Wilmington, North Carolina.

As the mother of two children with Down syndrome, she wanted to create a business where people like her son and daughter could "work and shine.

"[2] In 2013, Wright wrote a song called "It Starts with a Voice" to promote inclusion and acceptance of intellectually disabled people.

Her husband, Ben Wright, also ran a company that employed people with disabilities; it was called "Ready, Willing, and Able" and was featured on WWAY in 2015.