This month: meet our 2023 Fellowship creative advisors, jackie & Marisa
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Meet jackie sumell & Marisa Morán Jahn!
In addition to introducing the 2023 Culture & Narrative Fellows, we want to introduce and thank two other individuals who helped shape the 2023 Fellowship experience. This year, we invited multidisciplinary artists and Creative Change alums jackie sumell and Marisa Morán Jahn to join our selection committee as our first-ever Creative Advisors (pictured left to right, respectively).
Essential to the Culture & Narrative Fellowship is a demonstrated commitment to art as social practice. Both Marisa and jackie continue to lead innovative and impactful projects that reflect thoughtful and strategic approaches to collaboration with critical communities. And we’re thrilled that both artists signed on to further engage with our fellows through community learning sessions!
During the Narrative Innovators Lab launch, our artist talk with jackie and tour of the “Growing Abolition” exhibit at MoMA PS1 introduced fellows to how her relationship with the late Herman Wallace led to the “Solitary Gardens” project. Later this summer, Marisa will lead a session on the role of design in building equitable futures and the new book she co-authored with Rafi Segal, Design & Solidarity.
Keep an eye out for highlights from Marisa’s session and other upcoming artist-led community learning sessions!
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Register Now: NRL Webinar Series
Join us on May 19 at 2:00 pm ET for our monthly Narrative Research Lab (NRL) webinar. This month, we’ll hear from National Network for Immigrant and Refugee Rights about their spotlight report and digital map for documenting the impacts of border militarization in the lives of migrants, refugees, and border communities.
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TOA is a Spring 2023 Grantee Partner!
We're excited to be included among the Pop Culture Collaborative’s Spring 2023 grantee partners. The narrative power of pop culture is an essential ingredient to the work of social change, and we’re extremely grateful for their support of our cultural strategies work. Check out this powerhouse community of grantee partners!
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Welcome Dr. Tia Smith to Team TOA!
We’re excited to welcome Dr. Tia Smith to our narrative and research team! Tia is an experienced researcher and communications professional. In addition to her formal education, Tia brings extensive expertise in managing communication campaigns and research projects with the Leona Tate Foundation for Change and Plessey & Ferguson Foundation, as well as the United Nations Development Fund for Women. She joins us from New Orleans.
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Our May 2023 Calendar is Live
This month is Asian American & Pacific Islander Month, National Mental Health Month, and Older Americans Month. In May, we celebrate Mother’s Day and the birthdays of Septima Clark, Yuri Kochiyama, Malcolm X, and Harvey Milk. We also remember George Floyd, Dr. George Tiller, and wear red in observance of National Missing and Murdered Indigenous Persons Day. Visit our editorial calendar for messaging tips on these and other upcoming media hooks.
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Culture Corner: Watch No Borders, Just Flavors!
This month, we’re excited to feature United We Dream’s new YouTube series—No Borders, Just Flavors!
Each episode features two immigrant youth going face-to-face in a friendly cooking competition. Through showcasing old family recipes, like Betsabe’s Cuban grandfather’s papas rellenas or Shruti’s panchmel dal, contestants’ stories spotlight the collective care, shared abundance, and power that comes from celebrating culture and the inherent value of immigrants in our multi-racial, multi-ethnic communities.
So step into the Just Flavors kitchen with host Morelys and some of Gen-Z’s favorite TikTok foodies and chefs. Episode 1 launched April 20, and new episodes drop every Thursday at 8 pm ET.
Watch the trailer and subscribe for notifications today!
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Image credits: jackie sumell, Jill Greenberg, The Opportunity Agenda, logo courtesy of Pop Culture Collaboratory, Dr. Tia Smith, The Opportunity Agenda, and United We Dream
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