Jean-Christophe Parisot
Jean-Christophe Parisot is a French political scientist and disability activist with tetraplegia due to myopathy.Early life and education
He was born in Douala, Cameroon. At ten he was diagnosed with limb-girdle muscular dystrophy. His two sisters also have this condition. In 1989 he became the first handicapped student to graduate from the Sciences Po.
. In 1997 he established the National League of Disabled Students. He graduated in 1995 and became a doctor in political science.Career
Parisot has served as a ministerial delegate in the French Ministry of Employment and Disability Integration. He is also the president and founder of the Collectif des Démocrates Handicapés. in 2002 and 2007 he ran for presidency just to show that disabled people also can take difficult tasks.
