Mojca Sušec graduated at the Faculty of law, University of Ljubljana, Slovenia and earned Bachelor’s degree in 2013. After graduation she gained experiences as a judicial trainee at High Court of Ljubljana. Since 2015 she has been employed full time as development coordinator in disability company Birografika BORI d.o.o.. Her engagements in the company covers different aspects of business law. Birografika BORI d.o.o. is a printing company founded and owned by Muscular Dystrophy Association of Slovenia with intent to employ and activate disabled people into working process, as the company has more than 40 years of successful business on the open market.
Mojca has been diagnosed with SMA (Spinal Muscular Atrophy), type 2 and strives to live as active, independent and balanced healthy life as possible. Besides her regular job, she co-founded “Zavod OS” in 2021, an institution for strengthening independent live of people with NMD and their equal opportunities in the framework of which Mojca gives lectures of social security and labor law. She is closely connected with the Muscular Dystrophy Association of Slovenia through her position of a Board member, where she is active for more than 10 years. In the association’s magazine “Revija MAŽ” she periodically publishes articles related to the law field concerning disabled people and their rights. She is also juror of the Labor and social court in Ljubljana and a Member of honorary court of arbitration in The National Council of Disability Organizations of Slovenia, both since 2020. The same year she became a member of Expert council for Gender Equality which is the consultative body of the Ministry of Labour, Family, Social Affairs and Equal Opportunities of Slovenia.
In her spare time she loves to play chess, where she collected 7 gold, 2 silver and 3 bronze medals from the Sports Federation for the Disabled of Slovenia – Slovenian Paralympic Committee (competitions at the national level). She loves old historical city downtowns, castles and wild nature, especially lakes and mountains. She is active in the working group in project GOGO – physically disabled conquer the mountains which is led by Alpine association of Slovenia. She lives on her own in a flat in Ljubljana, surrounded with the help of personal assistants and is owner of an African pygmy hedgehog.
As an Executive committee member of EAMDA she would like to contribute with her knowledge and experiences to support the community, especially people of NMD.