Cara Reedy

Journalist

she/her

New York, NY

Cara, a lightskin Black woman with big curly hair, looks directly into the camera with a smile. She is wearing a black shirt with large silver earrings.

Cara Reedy is the Founder and Director of the Disabled Journalists Association. Reedy spent 10 years of her career at CNN producing documentaries as well as writing for various verticals, including Eatocracy and CNN Business. In 2019, she produced her most recent short documentary for The Guardian entitled Dwarfism and Me, an exploration of the treatment of Dwarfs in American society. She has spent the last four years studying disability and its coverage in the media. As part of her work, she trains newsrooms to tell more robust and investigative stories about disability. In addition to her work in the journalism industry, Reedy also works in narrative change in the film and tv industry and is a member of the TV Academy Diversity Committee.