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Actor/Model and Deaf Activist Nyle DiMarco Joins in Launch of Historic “Hollywood Disability Inclusion Toolkit” to Help Industry Achieve Goals of Equitable Hiring & Authentic Representation of Disabilities
Nyle DiMarco
Reality TV Pioneer Jonathan Murray, RespectAbility President Jennifer Laszlo Mizrahi, Hollywood, Health & Society Director Kate Folb and California Endowment’s Jose Plaza to lead March 20 breakfast discussion about the path to inclusion of people with disabilities.
| What: | Official unveiling of The Hollywood Disability Inclusion Toolkit, a project of RespectAbility, a nonprofit organization that fights stigma and advances opportunities for people with disabilities. Announcement of new partnership between RespectAbility and and Hollywood, Health & Society, a project of the USC Annenberg Norman Lear Center to educate the movie/TV industry on how to ensure people with disabilities are included on both sides of the camera in the stories that Hollywood tells. |
| Where: | Bunim/Murray Productions Studio Glendale, CA 91201 |
| Who: | Nyle DiMarco, actor, model and activist, and the first Deaf person to win America’s Next Top Model and Dancing With The Stars
Jonathan Murray, reality TV pioneer, executive producer of Born This Way, Project Runway and Autism: The Musical Jennifer Laszlo Mizrahi, President, RespectAbility Kate Folb, Director, Hollywood, Health & Society Jose Plaza, California Endowment |
| Why: | With Hollywood striving to boost diversity and inclusion, one group consistently is overlooked: People with disabilities. One in five Americans has a disability, but is represented by fewer than two percent of TV and fewer than three percent of movie characters. In recent years none of the characters with disabilities in leading films were from an underrepresented group or the LGBTQ community, while non-disabled actors portray 95 percent of characters with disabilities on television. |
| When: | Tuesday, March 20, 2018 8:30 AM Breakfast begins 8:45 AM Program begins |
| NOTE: | Breakfast will be served. |
RespectAbility is a nonprofit organization fighting stigmas and advancing opportunities for people with disabilities.
