In fact, Burke believes that her disability has been the driving force behind her accomplishing her dreams. On her first day of school, she explained achondroplasia to her classmates, and worked toward her ambition of becoming a teacher with the love and support of her average-sized mother and siblings, and father, a fellow little person.

It was Burke’s love of fashion, though, that catalysed her current trajectory. Thanks to her fashion industry-focused blog, Minnie Mélange, her advocacy for inclusive design gained a platform; and in September 2016, she was invited to partake in the White House Design For All event by the Obama administration. On that same US trip, she was scouted for TED, and her subsequent 2017 talk, Why Design Should Include Everyone, catapulted her to international acclaim.

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