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IRE is honored to have Sara Luterman of The 19th and Wendy Lu of The New York Times joining in conversation for the 2025 AccessFest Conference keynote.
Luterman is the Disability and Aging Reporter at The 19th, a nonprofit, independent newsroom focused on gender. She previously worked at WNYC’s Radiolab and has written for The Nation, The American Prospect and The Washington Post. In 2023, she was a Long Term Care Crisis Fellow at the National Press Foundation. Her reporting at The Nation was shortlisted for the Deadline Club Mosaic Award, which recognizes excellence in “coverage of disability, ethnicity, sexual orientation, gender identity, social justice, equity and inclusion.”
Lu is a deputy editor on the Flexible Editing desk at The New York Times and a global speaker on disability representation in the media. She is also a board member for the National Center on Disability and Journalism. Previously, she was an editor and reporter at HuffPost, covering the intersection of disability, politics and culture. Her debut middle-grade novel, “Casting April,” about a talented disabled girl who will do anything for a chance at the spotlight, will be released in the summer of 2026
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