--- title: Eddie Ndopu | TIME description: Ndopu is an award-winning global humanitarian and social justice advocate. He serves as one of the UN Secretary-General’s SDG Advocates and sits on the board of the United Nations Foundation. His new book is Sipping Dom Pérignon Through a Straw: Reimagining Success as a Disabled Achiever canonical: https://time.com/author/eddie-ndopu/ og:title: TIME | Current & Breaking News | National & World Updates og:description: Breaking news and analysis from time.com. Politics, world news, photos, video, tech reviews, health, science, and entertainment news. og:url: https://time.com/author/eddie-ndopu/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production og:image:width: 300 og:image:height: 300 og:image:alt: Breaking news and analysis from time.com. Politics, world news, photos, video, tech reviews, health, science, and entertainment news. og:type: profile twitter:card: summary twitter:title: TIME | Current & Breaking News | National & World Updates twitter:description: Breaking news and analysis from time.com. Politics, world news, photos, video, tech reviews, health, science, and entertainment news. twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production ---  # Eddie Ndopu  ## Eddie Ndopu Ndopu is an award-winning global humanitarian and social justice advocate. He serves as one of the UN Secretary-General’s SDG Advocates and sits on the board of the United Nations Foundation. His new book is [Sipping Dom Pérignon Through a Straw: Reimagining Success as a Disabled Achiever](https://www.hachettebookgroup.com/titles/eddie-ndopu/sipping-dom-p%C3%A9rignon-through-a-straw/9781668626528/?lens=legacy-lit)  ## Eddie Ndopu *  Aug 1, 2023 ### [Success Hasn’t Protected Me From Humiliation](https://time.com/6299986/eddie-ndopu-success-hasnt-protected-me-from-being-humiliated/) Disability activist Eddie Ndopu on why there's no way to sidestep ableism [IDEAS](/section/ideas/) *  Oct 22, 2020 ### [Celebrating 30 Years Of Existential Defiance](https://time.com/5902345/eddie-ndopu-celebrating-gay-black-disabled-birthday/) [IDEAS](/section/ideas/) *  May 21, 2020 ### [It's Time to Rethink the Language of Accessibility](https://time.com/5839846/rethink-the-language-accessibility-more-equal/) [IDEAS](/section/ideas/) Meta: null ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"Organization","@id":"https://time.com/","name":"TIME","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/","name":"Home"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/author/eddie-ndopu/","name":"Eddie Ndopu"}}]},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"Person","@id":"https://time.com/author/eddie-ndopu/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/author/eddie-ndopu/"},"name":"Eddie Ndopu","jobTitle":null,"description":"Ndopu is an award-winning global humanitarian and social justice advocate. He serves as one of the UN Secretary-General’s SDG Advocates and sits on the board of the United Nations Foundation. His new book is Sipping Dom Pérignon Through a Straw: Reimagining Success as a Disabled Achiever","image":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltbffaa2b36ca0a69e/698a0e7e096a9464d76a830f/Eddie-Ndopu.jpg?branch=production","url":"https://time.com/author/eddie-ndopu/","worksFor":{"@type":"Organization","name":"TIME","url":"https://time.com/"}}] ```