Jennifer Jayanti Fitzgerald,
1959-2000. Jennifer was
a lawyer, futurist and researcher with extensive experience working
as an advocate for people with disabilities.
For a number of years Jennifer worked at Queensland Advocacy
Incorporated, a systems advocacy organization which advocates for
the needs,
rights and lives of people
with disability. Her
work there focused on the impact of a range of bio-ethical issues on
the lives of people with disability.
Jennifer wrote and spoke extensively on bio-ethical issues,
ethical futures and end of
life decision making. She
authored the book, Include Me
In: Disability, Rights
and the Law in Queensland, (QAI, 1994), she was joint editor
with Sohail Inayatullah of the book Transcending
Boundaries: Prabhat Rainjan Sarkar's Theories of Individual and
Social Transformation (Gurukula Press, Maleny, Queensland,
Australia, 1999). Forthcoming is: Women
and Tantra.