Film + Strategy + Campaign Design + Social Change
Social movements need powerful stories. But if that is all it took to solve social problems, we wouldn’t have any. Strong and compelling stories that grapple with timely and important issues can benefit from careful planning to ensure the message reaches the right audiences, in the right ways, at the right times.
As a documentary impact strategist, I have helped filmmakers, funders, and movement leaders build strategic partnerships and plans that strengthen their respective projects and contribute to lasting change. I have also conducted research and designed programming to strengthen the field of documentary impact.
My latest work focuses on supporting, resourcing, and connecting people of color led and serving organizations working in nonfiction. You can learn more here: colorcongress.org. Unfortunately that means I am not currently taking on any new clients.
I use a recent blog post that I wrote for Immigrant Heritage Month as a space to explore this question, as it relates to the unlikely friendship that has grown between my white, ultra-conservative father and my ultra-liberal Congolese professor.
Check it out: welcome.us/an-unlikely-friendship/