Prasanna Ranganathan
Board Director
Prasanna is a producer, lawyer, diversity, equity, inclusion, belonging (DEIB) and accessibility consultant, speaker, author, and arts correspondent. Prasanna leads his own DEIB and accessibility consultancy, and previously served as the Head of Diversity and Belonging at Shopify, and as a human rights lawyer with the Government of Canada, the United Nations, a corporate law firm, and the Independent Street Checks Review.
Prasanna is a Consulting Producer on the 2021 docuseries Born for Business about entrepreneurs with disabilities (airing on Crave Canada and NBC Peacock), an Associate Producer on the documentary film Dream, Girl about women entrepreneurs which premiered at the Obama White House in 2016. He was a speaker at the Toronto International Film Festival Industry Conference, and a Guest Lecturer at the University of Southern California Annenberg Inclusion Initiative.
Prasanna was a syndicated screen time columnist on CBC Radio, a social media correspondent for the 2019 Academy Awards red carpet for etalk, and the co-author of a South Asian vegetarian cookbook with his mother called Made with Prema raising money for the Canadian National Institute for the Blind. Proudly claiming his identity as a disabled (blind), South Asian, queer person, Prasanna is a founding board member of the Disability Screen Office and a past board member of Inside Out.
Prasanna is a Consulting Producer on the 2021 docuseries Born for Business about entrepreneurs with disabilities (airing on Crave Canada and NBC Peacock), an Associate Producer on the documentary film Dream, Girl about women entrepreneurs which premiered at the Obama White House in 2016. He was a speaker at the Toronto International Film Festival Industry Conference, and a Guest Lecturer at the University of Southern California Annenberg Inclusion Initiative.
Prasanna was a syndicated screen time columnist on CBC Radio, a social media correspondent for the 2019 Academy Awards red carpet for etalk, and the co-author of a South Asian vegetarian cookbook with his mother called Made with Prema raising money for the Canadian National Institute for the Blind. Proudly claiming his identity as a disabled (blind), South Asian, queer person, Prasanna is a founding board member of the Disability Screen Office and a past board member of Inside Out.
Image Description: Prasanna Ranganathan, a South Asian man with short black hair, smiles brightly while wearing a black blazer with a subtle pattern over a white shirt. He sits against a dark background, exuding confidence and warmth.
