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Mae Mehra
- Location:
- India, United States
- Languages:
- English
- Issues:
- Disability Rights, Child Welfare, Education, Racial Injustice, Mass Incarceration & Criminal Justice Reform, Women and Girls, Gender violence , Human Rights
- Expertise:
- Impact Producing, Impact Strategist/Advisor, Campaign Implementation
- Cultural/racial identity:
- white
- Self identification:
- female
Bio
Mae Thornton Mehra is an oral historian and filmmaker who earned her MA in Islamic Studies at Columbia University in New York City in 2008. Mae has collaborated with her husband and filmmaker, Atin Mehra on documentary film and other media projects at Orange Kite Productions since its inception in 2007. In 2020 Mae and Atin co-founded the nonprofit Thriving Roots Initiative to further their work of social impact documentary filmmaking. Mae serves as Producer on the award-winning feature documentary film, BEING MICHELLE (2022) which is building community to demand the basic human right to communication for Deaf/disabled people in the criminal justice system. www.thrivingrootsinitiative.org www.orangekiteproductions.com
