Emma Grace Wright

Emma Grace Wright is a storyteller with a unique perspective and passion for telling stories about those who are marginalized, especially people with intellectual and developmental disabilities. Her passion stems from being the sister to 2 younger siblings with Down syndrome and an older sister with autism. Her proven ability to produce, direct, shoot and edit short documentaries has landed her work on CNN, Time, Today Show, GMA and BBC. In 2017, she founded and hosted the Valorem Film Festival, which helped ignite a national conversation about the under representation of people with disabilities in film. Emma Grace is a featured writer for Maria Shriver's Architects of Change, and Director of Media for the internationally recognized coffee shop, Bitty & Beau's Coffee. At 19, she made her directorial debut with her first narrative short film, "The Deep End". Wright is a member of the Film & TV department in the Tisch School of the Arts at New York University.