Hon. Laura Kanushu is a Ugandan lawyer, politician and legislator. She represents people with disabilities in the Parliament of Uganda, where she is a member of the National Resistance Movement (NRM). Her career as a human rights advocate has focused especially for people with disabilities and she is the Executive Director of Legal Action for People with Disabilities (LAPD). She is an Executive Member of the Uganda Women's Parliamentary Association (UWOPA) as the people with disabilities representative.

In the Parliament of Uganda, she is a Member of the Committee on Rules, Privileges and Discipline and she is also a Member of the Gender Labour and Social Development Committee.

In 2020, the network established its governing committee of nine regional champions. The CPwD Regional Champions have been chosen to represent each of the CPA’s nine Regions and will promote the rights of Commonwealth Parliamentarians with Disabilities in their Region and represent disability interests within the CPA.

The current list of Regional Champions are as follows:

• Hon. Timothy Wanyonyi, MP (Kenya National Assembly - CPA Africa Region)

• Hon. Sudarshana Denipitiya, MP (Parliament of Sri Lanka - CPA Asia Region)

• Hon. Liesl Tesch, MP (New South Wales Legislative Assembly - CPA Australia Region)

• Hon. Jeremy Balfour, MSP (Scottish Parliament - CPA British Islands and Mediterranean Region)

• Hon. Shane Thompson, MLA (Legislative Assembly of the Northwest Territories - CPA Canada Region)

• Senator Hon. Paul Richards (Senate of Trinidad and Tobago - CPA Caribbean, Americas and the Atlantic Region)

• Smt. Supriya Sule, MP (Lok Sabha, Parliament of India - CPA India Region)

• Hon. Viam Pillay, MP (Fiji Parliament - CPA Pacific Region)

• Senator Hon. Isaiah Jacob (Dewan Negara, Parliament of Malaysia - CPA South-East Asia Region)

2021 - 2022: Hon. Dennitah Ghati, HSC (Kenya)

2019 - 2021: Hon. Kevin S. Murphy (Nova Scotia)