When Sacha Bowman was a child she was conscious of the fact that she stood out. “It was a bit of a difficult experience, being mixed race and having a disability,” says the 23-year-old who was raised in a predominantly white area of Lancaster. “I had basically no one to look up to. It was very hard.”
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