Penny Melville-Brown

Penny Melville-Brown is a British Royal Navy veteran, blind baker and winner of the Holman Prize. She served for 22 years in the Women’s Royal Naval Service (WRNS) and Royal Navy, reaching the rank of commander. She was the first woman to hold the position of naval barrister. She was medically discharged from the Royal Navy in 1999 after her eyesight deteriorated and she created Disability Dynamics to help other people with disabilities to start a business. In 2009, she won an OBE for her service to the disabled. In 2017, she was one of the three winners of the 2017 Holman Prize for Blind Ambition, a new award for blind adventurers. She has an online baking project called Baking Blind where she shows people how she bakes and encourages others to test their limits even if they have disabilities.