Pati Umaga (QSM) is a musician who cares deeply about enabling participation and inclusion for disabled people and Pacific communities through music. Umaga, who is paraplegic, is a trustee of the Pacific Music Awards and a past president of Disabled Persons Assembly. He chats to Áine about the power of music, coming to terms with disability and what led him to advocate for the full inclusion of Pacific People with disabilities in Aotearoa.

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Generations of Change is a seven-part series where disabled leaders dive deep into their round-about journeys into spearheading all kinds of change towards a more accessible, inclusive world. Journalist and advocate Áine Kely-costello, as a Generation z disabled person, asks about growing up disabled forty or fifty years ago or acquiring disability as an adult. How has Aotearoa changed, or not, in the meantime? What unplanned moments would shape the lives of the visionary disabled people who dedicated themselves to making inclusion the norm?

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Generations of change is Developed and funded by Imagine Better. It is also broadcast on Wellington Access Radio. It features song Siva by Joom. The series was edited by Juliana Machado with visual direction by Benjamin Brooking. Produced by Áine Kelly-Costello.