Prasanna Ranganathan:  Keynote speaker

Prasanna (he/him) is a documentary producer, human rights lawyer, diversity, equity, inclusion and belonging (DEIB) consultant, accessibility advisor, speaker, writer, and arts columnist/correspondent.

Prasanna leads his own DEIB consultancy Prasanna Ranganathan Consulting and previously served as the Head of Diversity and Belonging at Shopify and as a human rights lawyer with the Government of Canada, the United Nations, the Saskatchewan Human Rights Commission, and the Independent Street Checks Review.

Prasanna is a Consulting Producer on the 2021 docuseries Born for Business about entrepreneurs with disabilities (NBC Peacock, Crave) and a seasoned speaker on DEIB and disability, having spoken at the Toronto International Film Festival (TIFF) Industry Conference on disability inclusion and representation and having served as a Guest Lecturer at the University of Southern California Annenberg Inclusion Initiative on inclusive storytelling.

Most recently, Prasanna worked as a screentime columnist on CBC Radio reviewing the best in film, TV and streaming content and previously served as a social media correspondent for eTalk at the 2019 Academy Awards.

Proudly claiming his identity as a racialized, LGBTQ2+ person with a disability (blindness), Prasanna is a founding board member of the Disability Screen Office and a past board member of Inside Out.