Have a social drink in New York

3 of the UK's coolest disabled guys are hitting New York for a flying visit. If you are disabled, work in the disability field or just fancy coming along; you are all very welcome. We are simply meeting at the Gaslight bar from 7pm (New York time) for drinks and fun. Here's a bit about is:

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Srin, 25, has a disability called Spinal Muscular Atrophy, and lives in London and works as a lawyer at Herbert Smith LLP, a leading commercial law firm in the City of London. He graduated from King’s College, University of London with a degree in Genetics, before re-qualifying as a lawyer. After finishing his studies, Srin joined Herbert Smith LLP and in 2010, he took some time out from work to go travelling around the world for four months and consequently takes a keen personal interest in trying to encourage people with disabilities to travel more.

Martyn, 28, lives in London too and runs his social media consultancy called Sunnier Days. He previously worked as a product development executive at Scope, the UK’s leading disability charity. Martyn graduated from Coventry University with a Masters degree in Marketing and a bachelors Degree in Economics. After university, Martyn briefly lived in his hometown of St.Ives (Cambridgeshire) before moving down to London to take up the role at Scope HQ. Since university Martyn has become an influential voice in the disability sphere through his pioneering use of social media and e-campaigning via his blog, www.martynsibley.com (http://www.martynsibley.com/). He aims to inspire, inform and change the world for disabled people.

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As Project Manager for the BBC Toby works on Future Media and Technology and is Chair for on BBC Ability (disabled staff forum). He is Assistant Producer for Champions Club Community (http://www.championsclubcommunity.com/) and Personal Performance Coach having trained with the Coaching Academy (http://www.the-coaching-academy.com/). He has enjoyed successful careers as Engagement Leader for Cerner in the worlds largest healthcare IT programme and Consultant at Accenture for global Communications and High Tech clients. He has also worked for British Airways as an Account Executive and LloydsTSB as young as 15.

Toby went to the University of Derby (http://www.derby.ac.uk/) and achieved a 2:1 in a Marketing Management degree and got Distinction in an Advanced GNVQ in Business after school. He later moved to London to pursue his career aspirations, owns his own apartment and has a team of live in Personal Care Assistants (PA) 24/7.