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Tameka Citchen-Spruce

Tameka Citchen-Spruce

Disability justice activist, award-winning independent film producer, and Co-Director of LEAD at Michigan Disability Rights Coalition; uses storytelling and advocacy to amplify BIPOC and disabled communities.

Jul 5, 2026

10:39
Can you tell us a little bit about him and why you chose to do a documentary about him specifically?
10:45
Yes, yes.
10:47
So I was asked to do it by a wonderful filmmaker and a friend of mine, Adele Mohammed.
10:55
She's also a disabled woman filmmaker.
11:00
And so she partnered with her and her team partnered with PBS American Masters to do this series called The Renegades.
11:13
And so it was important to her to have, it tells five stories, so to have five teams of all disabled filmmakers And so I was blessed and fortunate enough that she asked me to tell Thomas Wiggins' story in particular because it is believed that He had autism as well.
11:44
And so she knew I was producing, working on a documentary.
16:00
And so, yeah, I'm just wondering what other disabled revolutionaries you're thinking about and, yeah, bringing into your work.

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