What is Move to Include™?

Move to Include™ is an award-winning national initiative to promote disability inclusion, representation, and accessibility in public media. Founded and led by WXXI in Rochester, NY, and built on the principle of “Nothing About Us Without Us”, this initiative spotlights the lived experiences of people with disabilities and highlights important issues around disability, including education, healthcare, housing, employment, and more – through television, radio, news, community events, and digital media.

Along with our community partners and subject matter experts, Move to Include™ works in a co-creative process to produce content for the public media system, ensuring authentic representation both in front of and behind the camera. For our station partners, we provide on-going training and resources to support this important work in their own communities, convening a national community of practice around disability inclusion and leading to systems level change within public media.

Move to Include™ was launched in 2014 as a partnership between WXXI Public Media and the Golisano Foundation, the nation’s largest private foundation devoted to supporting programs for people with intellectual, developmental, and physical disabilities. We are excited to be expanding to public media stations across the country.

Attention Public Media Stations:

The Move to Include™ team has put together an extensive guide on the ways public media stations can get involved as well as resources to get started. See how the initiative can work at your station.

Questions?

If you represent a public media station and would like to learn more about bringing this initiative to your community, please contact Move to Include™ project manager Sarah Murphy Abbamonte at movetoinclude@wxxi.org.