Interests
Michelle Memran
Filmmaker, Artist, Advocate
By amplifying the voices of individuals living with dementia, we can disrupt societal stigma, transform media, improve health outcomes, and save relationships.
Current Work
Michelle is a documentary filmmaker working in dementia awareness and creative aging advocacy. Her collaborators are living with various forms of dementia. Together, we're co-creating new narratives about what it means to live fully – for each of them.
Personal Hero
Persons Living with Dementia
Words of Strength
Creative Collaboration as Care
Vision
By amplifying the voices of individuals living with dementia through purposeful and artful creative collaborations, Michelle believes we can disrupt societal stigma, transform media, improve health outcomes, and save relationships.
Strategy
As a documentary filmmaker, Michelle uses a camera as a tool for creative expression and collaboration with individuals navigating neurocognitive change. Together, they co-create vital short films that articulate a rich range of lived experience.
Impact
As an Atlantic Fellow, Michelle aims to shift dementia's pervasive "tragedy narrative" by elevating media content and approaches to creative care. Exploring participatory filmmaking as a care modality, she hopes to change the lens from loss to love.
Motivation
The prevailing dementia narrative in the United States is one of despair and loss, mainly expressed by care partners and healthcare providers. The perspectives of those living with dementia are essential in creating viable and equitable ways forward.
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Michelle
a NoteHave ideas for global brain health or a collaboration? I would love to hear from you. Feel free to send an introductory note.
