Angela Bachiller

Angela Bachiller shook up the political world when in 2013, she became the first person with down syndrome to hold public office and pursue a political career, as she earned a seat on the city council of Valladolid, Spain. Her appointment is seen as an amazingly huge step in the “normalization” of people with this genetic condition and the hope is that Angela will help inspire great change in the field such as many people with down syndrome still being ineligible to vote.