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Regan Brashear
- Location:
- United States
- Languages:
- English
- Issues:
- Disability Rights, LGBTQIA+, Racial Injustice, Mass Incarceration & Criminal Justice Reform, Economic Injustice, Labor issues
- Expertise:
- Impact Producing, Consulting, Impact Strategist/Advisor, Alternative Distribution
- Cultural/racial identity:
- white
- Self identification:
- genderqueer/woman
Bio
Regan Brashear is an award-winning impact producer, filmmaker, educational distribution consultant, and founder of Making Change Media. Originally from Virginia, Regan has been working on labor, disability, LGBTQIA+, and racial justice issues for over 25 years now through documentary film, union organizing, community forums and events, teen theater, and grassroots activism. Their impact producing projects include Time for Ilhan, I Am Maris, DEEJ, FIXED, Waging Change, Under Our Skin, and more. Regan has been an active member-owner and former Head of Launch and Member Services of the educational distribution coop New Day Films, where they developed the “Promo School” program to train new members on how to promote their films to the educational market. Regan is the producer, director and impact producer of the award-winning documentary on technology, bioethics and disability, FIXED: The Science/Fiction of Human Enhancement, released in 2013 and broadcast on PBS stations around the country from 2015 through 2018 via American Public Television. FIXED is now taught widely in disability studies, sociology and science studies curricula in high schools, colleges, universities and medical schools worldwide. She has also been co-facilitating an 11-week antiracism series for white-identified people called “Study + Action” for the past few years through SURJ’s Bay Area chapter (Showing Up for Racial Justice).
