In this three-part episode, we explore the dilemmas surrounding disability. Our student producers discuss the way we talk about disability and how it is portrayed in media with Ann Neville-Jan and Allison Cameron Gray.

Part 2: We hear excerpts from a panel at Writers Guild of America, West on the portrayals of people with disabilities in television and film. This panel titled, People First: Real Disabilities, Reel Stories, was presented by Hollywood, Health Society, a program of the USC Annenberg Norman Lear Center.

Dedicated to Dr. Ann Neville-Jan and her family.

Student Producers: Alyssa Concha, Robert Russow, and Carly Wasserman

Podcast Contributors:

Ann Neville-Jan, Former associate chair of curriculum and faculty and associate professor

David Radcliff, writer and member of WGA Committee for Writers with Disabilities

People First: Real Disabilities, Reel Stories (Full panel video) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BLwwGagugrQ

Music:

Borealis by pjmny1

A new beginning by bensound

Tenderness by bensound