Creator: Reframing Disability. DEI & Solutions Journalism trainer. Human rights, disability, gender, global health from India, Germany & Uganda. Fellow, Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism.
Doubted and disrespected: These doctors face a double disadvantage
This story is part of As Equals, CNN’s ongoing series on gender inequality.
Para athletes are elite competitors – not tragic or inspirational caricatures
News coverage of the Paralympic Games in India is stuck in regressive victim-hero dichotomies and needs an overhaul
Democracy Denied
An article on disability rights in Indian elections. It demonstrated how disabled voters face barriers in India’s polling process and the reasons for it.
Every small step towards accessibility counts
In this first issue, hear from Jody Santos about ways the Disability Justice Project makes filmmaking accessible to people with diverse disabilities, a quick explainer on camelCase hashtags, upcoming events you could attend virtually, or in person, an exciting opportunity, and links to two award-winning stories.
Kampf gegen Krebs: Warum Indien bei der Vorsorge auf den besonderen Tastsinn setzt | DER SPIEGEL
As a European Journalist Centre grantee, I worked with a videographer to produce this story and published it in the German publication Der Spiegel.
Power of touch: how blind women are helping detect breast cancer in India
A scheme training visually impaired women to use their heightened tactile abilities benefits patients and examiners
The blind women detecting early stage breast cancer in India
Only 1% of women in India have ever attended a breast-cancer screening programme. A team of blind and partially sighted women are working to change that, one highly sensitive examination at a time.
A 9-step plan for 'curb-cutting' disability access in India’s news and newsrooms
My paper on disability inclusion in India's news and newsrooms written during a 6-month fellowship at the Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism in 2022.
Telling the Whole Story: Covering Climate Change with Solutions Journalism, Prague Media Point 2020
Panel discussion.
Bridging empathy and social justice
My 2017 TEDx talk on the values I have gained from reporting on marginalised communities.
Five Tips on Reporting Solutions Stories for/with Marginalized Communities
Tips on Reporting Solutions Stories for/with Marginalized Communities.
Blind Lawyers Make Tech Visible for All
Mission Accessibility's legal experts use structured negotiation and litigation to make Indian apps and websites accessible.
The Hard Labor That Fuels the Hair Trade
Anthropologists are studying the global supply of human hair—a billion dollar industry for wigs, weaves, toupees, and more—that relies on hair pickers who gather discarded strands from streets and drains to make ends meet.
“I am disabled, it doesn’t mean I have no dignity”
In India, women with disabilities face significant barriers to accessing sexual and reproductive health care.
The Doctor Is Out, and These Babies Are Healthier For It
India has saved the eyesight of thousands of infants by creating a system that allows non-physicians to screen for a rare eye disease.