Jody Santos is an award-winning journalist, author, and documentary filmmaker. She has reported for television, print news, and public radio for the last 20 years, and has been producing and directing documentaries for PBS and cable networks like Discovery Health and the Hallmark Channel since 2000. She has traveled to more than a dozen countries across five continents, documenting everything from the trafficking of girls in Nepal to sustainable agriculture efforts in Rwanda.
As a special projects producer for Boston’s NBC news affiliate, she was nominated for an Emmy for a special report on an effort to rid the city’s streets of black market guns. Her documentary, No One Left Behind, won a Telly Award in film/video in the social responsibility category in 2015. It was selected from over 12,000 entries from all 50 states and five continents.
Santos is an associate professor of communications at Springfield College in Springfield, Massachusetts. Her book, Daring to Feel: Violence, the News Media, and Their Emotions, was released by Rowman & Littlefield in December 2009.
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Learn about how new prenatal blood tests could eliminate neurodiversity as women opt to terminate pregnancies upon learning of abnormal results.
“While there’s a lower class, I’m in it. While there’s a criminal element, I’m of it, and while there’s a soul in prison, I’m not free.
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