Join us for an interactive lunch talk by Shanelle Matthews, the former communications director for the Movement for Black Lives. She will discuss how liberation stories frame new worlds and build narrative power for 21st-century social movements. Lunch will be provided for those who register.
This is the second event in the Pozen Center's Stories of Rights event series, which explores the interplay of human rights and storytelling. The first event, held January 30, was a talk by journalist Atossa Araxia Abrahamian.
Shanelle Matthews collaborates with social justice activists, organizations, and campaigns to inspire action and build narrative power for social justice and liberation. She recently completed her tenure as the Movement for Black Lives communications director. She founded Radical Communicators Network (RadComms), a global community of practice for social movement communications workers. She is a former Activist-in-Residence and faculty member at The New School. She is currently a full-time Distinguished Lecturer at the City College of New York, where she teaches Narrative Power in the Black Radical Tradition, Rhetoric of Liberation: The Role of Narrative Power in Contemporary Movements, and Black Women's Resistance: Narratives of Safety and Survival. She is co-editor of Liberation Stories: Building Narrative Power for 21st Century Social Movements, a forthcoming anthology that details world-building narrative campaigns and strategies led by social movement communications workers in the 21st century.