“PARSEC, Pittsburgh’s premier Science Fiction & Fantasy Organization meets on Saturday, October 19th, 2024 via ZOOM and IN PERSON at the Carnegie Library of Pittsburgh – Squirrel Hill, Meeting Room B. Meeting 1:00 pm to 3:30 pm; meeting room and the ZOOM both open for chat at 12:30 pm. To Register for the meeting, visit our website at https://parsec-sff.org/ or use the direct Registration link at https://bit.ly/NewParsec
Our Program:
On Saturday, October 19th, our guest will be Day Al-Mohamed, author, filmmaker, and disability policy advisor.
Day Al-Mohamed is an author, filmmaker, and disability policy advisor. Day has written two novels, “Baba Ali and the Clockwork Djinn” and more recently, “The Labyrinth’s Archivist” as well as multiple short stories and articles.
She is a regular host on Idobi Radio’s Geek Girl Riot with a weekly audience of 100k+ listeners and a Founding Member of FWD-Doc (Documentary Filmmakers with Disabilities).
Her documentary, THE INVALID CORPS, about disabled Civil War soldiers, was licensed to Alaska Airlines and had its broadcast premiere on public television in 2020.
Day is currently working on a docu-series, RENEGADES, of role-breaking disabled leaders in history for American Masters/PBS digital (October 2024) and is a proud producer of feature documentary UNSEEN (POV, 2024).
Day was named a DOC NYC 2021 Documentary New Leader, was part of the NBC 2022 Original Voices Fellowship class, and awarded a Disability Futures Fellow grant in 2024.
Outside of her creative work, Day is a policy expert with over 15 years of experience. The former White House Director of Disability Policy, she is a proven leader in inclusion and accessibility, policy development, organizational transformation, and innovative program design. Day lives in Washington DC with her wife, N.R. Brown, daughter Octavia, and guide dog, Gamma.
You can learn about the RENEGADES docu-series at: https://www.pbs.org/wnet/americanmasters/shorts/renegades/
Day Al-Mohamed’s website is at: https://www.dayalmohamed.com/
Meeting Registration
Meeting Registration is at https://bit.ly/NewParsec, or visit our website at https://parsec-sff.org/ “
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