Kylee Maloney has been a creative for as long as she can remember: from trying to make music with two hands on the piano at three to writing fanfiction at nearly 60, she has always enjoyed using her voice, words and music as modes of self-expression — and sometime employment. As a survivor of abuse in the care of RNZFB, she works as Administrator for the small group of survivors tasked with constructing a compensation and redress framework for positive change. She also enjoys reading, weight lifting, a decent glass of wine and setting the world to rights with a small and select group of friends. As a newly-diagnosed autist, she now proudly wears the sunflower and hopes to continue to help others through promotion of self-knowledge as a tool for growth.

The song performed by Kylee after her interview is called, The Water is Wide, from her album, Early One Celtic Morning.

The album is available on Spotify and Apple Music

Connect with Kylee:

• Kylee has a professional clone of her voice on Eleven Labs. If you would her to read to you and you have Eleven Reader, add Kylee here:

https://elevenlabs.io/app/voice-lab/share/c2b0aec5bdab1dd57f61079e0ad3a1d694cc1657aaa1dfef1e0e31bccf2c3f78/pcKdPWtbF6bM9o7NHjCI

• The link to Kylee's fanfic on AO3 is here:

https://archiveofourown.org/users/TheKiwiCelt/works

• Kylee is featured

in an interview here

about her IT course on radio New Zealand

• Email Kylee with Subject line: Disrupters at silvercords@icloud.com

Podcast Chapters

00:00 Introduction - Disability Disrupters Podcast

00:21 Introduction to Podcast Guest

01:05 Interview with Kylee Maloney

37:53 Goodbye from Dr Pam

38:07 Advert - Tipjar support for the podcast

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