Jody Santos (she/her) is the founding executive director and editor-in-chief at the Disability Justice Project. A human rights filmmaker, she has traveled to some 30 countries across five continents, documenting everything from the trafficking of girls in Nepal to the widespread and often abusive practice of institutionalizing children with disabilities in the U.S. and other countries. Her documentaries have appeared on public television and cable networks like the Discovery Channel, and her work has also been featured on New England Public Radio and in regional and national publications like The Boston Globe and Poynter. Regardless of the medium, Santos’s goal has been to highlight those narratives that are usually unseen or underreported.

Santos is the recipient of American Women in Radio & Television’s Gracie Allen Award, and she was nominated for an Emmy for a special report on black-market guns airing on NBC Boston. Her documentary, Rising Tides, Raising Voices, has screened at festivals worldwide, earning accolades such as Best International Film at The Together! 2024 Disability Film Festival organized by the UK Disabled People’s Council. In 2024, the film was featured on International Day of Persons with Disabilities at UNESCO’s inaugural Festival of Short Films on Disability Inclusion in Paris and at a screening in Rome hosted by the Food and Agriculture Organization of the UN (FAO). In 2025, it won the Justice category of the 2025 Covering Climate Now Journalism Awards, co-founded by Columbia Journalism Review and The Nation.

Santos is an associate teaching professor at Northeastern University’s School of Journalism. She is the author of Daring to Feel: Violence, the News Media, and Their Emotions, published by Rowman & Littlefield’s Lexington Books.

Aditi Gangrade is an Indian filmmaker, entrepreneur, and co-founder of Much Much Media, a Gen Z-led media company bringing global stories, cultural analysis, and impact storytelling to audiences invested in news, identity, inclusion, and representation.

A poet before she became a filmmaker, Gangrade’s love for storytelling began with childhood memories and the stories she grew up around. Much of that instinct comes from her grandmother, a woman full of stories but without the platform to share them. That absence shaped Gangrade’s creative purpose: to build spaces where underrepresented people could tell their stories with authority.

Through Much Much Media, Gangrade leads films, campaigns, editorial projects, and cultural strategy for organizations, nonprofits, and social impact initiatives working across disability, gender, health, youth, media, and inclusion. Her work brings together journalistic curiosity, cinematic sensitivity, cultural insight, and a deep understanding of how stories move in the digital age.

With over eight years of experience across Gen Z marketing, youth media, inclusive campaigns, and impact filmmaking, Gangrade also leads Much Much Spectrum, the editorial and social media division of Much Much Media. Born from her own journey of discovering her neurodivergence, Much Much Spectrum has grown into a global community of over 200K people engaging with stories on disability, neurodiversity, mental health, gender, pop culture, caregiving, health, and representation.

Aalap Deboor is a producer-entrepreneur with 15 years in the entertainment industry. After a career in entertainment journalism working with Hindustan Times, followed by TV programming & production with MTV & VH1, he started Much Much Media, a Mumbai-based content studio. Since 2019, Much Much Media has told diverse stories for brands such as the ICC, Gates Foundation, Google, Netflix, Meta, Mahindra Jawa, Coca-Cola Foundation, and HSBC, as well as for several non-profits, netting over 100m+ views. Much Much Media runs an originals & insights studio called Much Much Spectrum, which has a 75,000-strong online community, creating original content on topics such as health & wellbeing, neurodiversity, disability, education, youth, gender, and family & caregiving.

Alexander Ogheneruemu is a Deaf writer, special educator, and disability advocate. A team member with the Voice for the Deaf Foundation (VDF), a Deaf-centric non-profit, his works are driven by a passion for changes that lead to better conditions for disabled and marginalized people.

Francine Uwayisaba is a field officer at Rwanda Union of Little People (RULP) and is in charge of the organization’s communications. She writes grants, manages RULP’s social media, and composes articles and weekly updates for the website. She earned her bachelor’s degree in journalism and communication from the University of Rwanda and has been a freelance contributor to the Disability Justice Project since the fall of 2022. She is trained in basic sign language; disability inclusion in HIV interventions; disability, sexuality, and rights; and gender balancing. She also works as an actor in dubbing movies from international languages to Kinyarwanda.

Sakdiyah Ma’ruf is Indonesia’s first Muslim female stand-up comic. Her comedy promotes dialogue, peace, and gender equality. She has performed in Indonesia, Australia, Sweden, Norway, and Mesir. Ma’ruf’s comedic work has been featured in Comedy Jihad, Born A Women, etc., Indonesia Seharusnya Rumah, Bersama, and other shows. She is the co-founder and main facilitator of “Our Voice for Change,” a women and youth initiative and comedy workshop promoting social change through comedy.

Ma’ruf is also a certified conference interpreter and translator who has 12 years of experience. Her translation works pertain to but are not limited to women’s rights, children and youth’s rights, disability rights, public health, sexual and reproductive health and rights, politics and democracy, disaster, emergency, environmental issues, and humanitarian issues. Ma’ruf is fluent in providing simultaneous, consecutive, and/or whispering interpreting services, including RSI (Remote Simultaneous Interpreting) at conferences, workshops, FGDs, press conferences, and webinars. Moreover, she has experience with translating documents, legal documents, and books.

Dan Zedek heads a design studio specializing in content-driven design and strategy. As creative director of The Boston Globe and BostonGlobe.com, he led the print and digital design, news development, data visualization, and infographics teams, building an award-winning visual brand. The Society for News Design named BostonGlobe.com “The World’s Best Designed News Site” at launch. Prior to the Globe, he was a designer or art director at numerous local and national publications, including Natural Health, Seattle Weekly, The Dallas Observer, Parenting, Guitar World, and the Village Voice. Zedek is a professor of the practice at the Northeastern University School of Journalism where he leads master’s degree studios in Media Innovation.

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