Crystal Asige

WHAT! I am screaming 😱. I have no clue how my work travelled around the world and landed in front of @TIME, but naming me in their 2024 #TIME100NEXT list of influential leaders shaping the future of their fields and defining the next generation of leadership is wild, and you are all right at the centre of this acknowledgement.

Thank you for helping me show the world that young, quirky people can also create impact!

1 Corinthians 2:9 says: That is what the scriptures mean when they say, “no eye has seen, no ear has heard, and no mind has imagined what God has prepared for those who love him.”

I just want to speak to the underdogs who feel like what they want is impossible. Please, please keep putting one foot in front of the other however dark it might be - I PROMISE, you were made for a time such as this on purpose and for purpose!

#CrystalAsige #TIME100NEXT #BlindingAllureMixtape

Sometimes, our hardest seasons end up producing the strongest versions of ourselves. #VIP

Every year, we have customer service week, Road Safety week, Fashion week and more. I’m really impressed with @PotterhouseSch for creating Inclusion Week. I spoke to their students and staff on practical ways to make everyone feel seen, heard and included - no matter who they are. #VIP

Nothing about us, without us, yet here we go again. The Draft Income Tax (PWD Exemptions) Regulations 2026 are a direct attack on our hard-won gains.

Here is why I am fighting back:

Hierarchy of Disability: Reg 10(2) ranks disabilities into "mild" & "severe" denying exemptions to "mild." You cannot tier human struggle. Equity isn't a ladder.

Punishing Families: Regs 20–23 restrict relief to only one parent. What about households where both parents carry the load, or families raising multiple children with disabilities?

Illegal Toll gates: A KSh 1,000 fee for assessments? The PWD Act 2025 repealed assessment fees! Why is this draft attempting to break the law just to monetize our access?

Harassment as Policy: Requiring a person with a permanent disability to re-prove their condition every 5 years, and pay for it? Permanent means permanent.

Rights are not privileges to be rented from the state every five years.

I am submitting firm interventions to protect our Constitutional rights. We will not be pushed into the shadows.

#VIP #CountUsIn #DisabilityRightsKE #NothingAboutUsWithoutUs

Sometimes what is meant to keep you down is really your secret power. Find your superpower #VIP