The stage is set for Story Movements 2019 held at the Katzen Arts Center on March 1-2, 2019 (Photo by Max Taylor)Hosted by the Center for Media & Social Impact (CMSI), Story Movements is a two-day catalytic convening that examines platforms and genres of civic media storytelling through the lens of social justice and social inequality. (Photo by Max Taylor)Caty Borum Chattoo, CMSI Director welcoming the participants on Day 1 (Photo by Max Taylor)Jennifer Humke, Senior Program Officer at the MacArthur Foundation addresses the attendees.(Photo by Max Taylor)Story Movements is supported by the John D. and Catherine C. MacArthur Foundation, which gives grants of over $25 million a year to support different media platforms and stories that strengthen democracy and build a better society. (Photo by Max Taylor)Jeff Rutenbeck, Dean of the School of Communication, home of CMSI at American University addresses the gathering. (Photo by Max Taylor)Let the panels begin! (Photo by Max Taylor)Prof. Ben Stokes, Faculty Fellow CMSI, moderates the first panel on Civic Storytelling & Media Platforms (Photo by Max Taylor)Colin Maclay, Executive Director of the Annenberg Innovation Lab, stats the proceedings with an engaging talk inviting media makers to think of creative and engaging ways to use media to encourage Census participation.(Photo by Max Taylor)Courtney Cogburn, Assistant Professor of Social Work at Columbia University and faculty of the Columbia Population Research Center, and lead curator for the virtual reality project, 1,000 Cut Journey, an immersive virtual reality experience of racism.(Photo by Max Taylor)Prentiss Haney, Executive Director of the Ohio Student Association (OSA), a multiracial student power organization building a political and cultural bloc of young people to move a progressive public policy agenda. (Photo by Max Taylor)Attendees at Story Movements 2019.(Photo by Max Taylor)Ben Kassoy is the Editor-in-chief of DoSomething.org, the largest not-for-profit exclusively for young people and social change, where he oversees the branding, content, and storytelling for the organization’s global campaigns. (Photo by Max Taylor)Annie Niemand, the Director of Research at the Center for Public Interest Communications talks about the science of storytelling (Photo by Max Taylor)Panelists answering audience questions. (Photo by Max Taylor)L to R: Ben Stokes, Colin Maclay, Courtney Cogburn, Prentiss Haney, Ben Kassoy and Annie Niemand (Photo by Max Taylor)Colin and Courtney (Photo by Max Taylor)Audience interaction is a huge part of Story Movements (Photo by Max Taylor)An informal fishbowl to facilitate the audience to talk about their projects and find potential collaborations.(Photo by Max Taylor)Fishbowl in progress (Photo by Max Taylor)Prof. Leena Jayaswal, CMSI Faculty Fellow introduces the panel on "Changing Images & Empowering Storytellers (Photo by Max Taylor)Sharese Bullock-Bailey with her co-presenters, Rick Litvin and Julie Lozano. Sharese is the Chief Strategy and Partnership Officer at Ghetto Film School, board member of ITVS, and Emmy-nominated producer, strategic consultant and leader in social impact storytelling. (Photo by Max Taylor)Rick Litvin is an Associate Arts Professor at the Tisch School of the Arts at New York University. (Photo by Max Taylor)Ghetto Film School (GFS) is a nonprofit created in 2000 with a mission to educate, develop, and celebrate the next generation of American storytellers. GFS originally started as an after-school program for minority students in the Bronx and now has locations in Los Angeles and New York City with over 4,000 participants between 14-30 years of age. (Photo by Max Taylor)Julie Lozano is a GFS Fellow and showed her animated film Journeys about about the trajectory of a Mexican Family in their pursuit of opportunity through the lens of the family’s younger daughter.(Photo by Max Taylor)Crystal Echo Hawk (Pawnee), is President and CEO of Echo Hawk Consulting (EHC) and founder and CEO of IllumiNative, which helps amplify Indigenous voices and create opportunities for impact. (Photo by Max Taylor)“invisibility is the modern form of bias” (Photo by Max Taylor)Nancy Schwartzman is a documentary film director, producer, and media strategist who uses storytelling and technology to create safer communities for women and girls. Roll Red Roll is her feature documentary debut. She also created the White-House award-winning mobile app, Circle of 6, designed to reduce sexual violence among America’s youth and college students.(Photo by Max Taylor)Kashif Shaikh is the Co-Founder and Executive Director of the Pillars Fund, an organization that invests in and amplifies the talents, narratives, and leadership of American Muslims. .(Photo by Max Taylor)Elizabeth Grizzle Voorhees is Managing Director of Creative Initiatives at Define American, a media and culture change organization that uses powerful narrative to shift the conversation about immigrants, identity, and citizenship in a changing America..(Photo by Max Taylor)Panel discussion (Photo by Max Taylor)L to R- Crystal Echo Hawk, Sharese Bullock Bailey, Kashif Shaikh, Nancy Schwartzman and Elizabeth Voorhees. (Photo by Max Taylor)Forging new connections (Photo by Max Taylor)Kashif Shaikh catched up with Jen Humke of the MacArthur Foundation and Jeff Jones of the Peabody Awards (Photo by Max Taylor)Story Movements attendees (Photo by Max Taylor)Beth Basta and Jen Humke from MacArthur Foundation with presenter Courtney Cogburn (Photo by Max Taylor)Caty introduces the panel on Hollywood Influence & Narrative Change (Photo by Max Taylor)Rashid Shabazz, is the Chief Marketing and Storytelling Officer at Color Of Change. He leads the group’s Hollywood Culture Project, dedicated to creating more accurate and authentic portrayals of Black people in movies and television. (Photo by Max Taylor)Bridgit Antoinette Evans is Executive Director of the Pop Culture Collaborative, a philanthropic resource and funder learning community that uses grantmaking, convening, narrative strategy, and research to transform the narrative landscape around people of color, immigrants, refugees, Muslims, and Native people—especially those who are women, queer, transgender, and/or disabled. (Photo by Max Taylor)Ishita is the Director of Culture Change at Caring Across Generations, a movement of all ages and backgrounds to transform caregiving and the images of caregiving and caregivers, an often invisible body of work and workers. (Photo by Max Taylor)Jeffrey Jones is Executive Director of the George Foster Peabody Awards, Director of the Peabody Media Center, and Lambdin Kay Chair for the Peabodys at the University of Georgia, which lift up and honor the most important stories that matter across entertainment, journalism, documentaries and children’s programming. (Photo by Max Taylor)Engaged audiences (Photo by Max Taylor)(Photo by Max Taylor)(Photo by Max Taylor)L to R- Caty Borum Chattoo, Rashid Shabazz, Bridgit Antoinette Evans, Ishita Srivastava and Jeff Jones (Photo by Max Taylor)Mingling at the Reception (Photo by Max Taylor)(Photo by Max Taylor)(Photo by Max Taylor)CMSI Team L to R: David Conrad, Varsha Ramani, Bethany Hall and Caty Borum Chattoo (Photo by Max Taylor)School of Communication Faculty (Photo by Max Taylor)Our incredible student volunteer team (Photo by Max Taylor)Day 2- Caty introduces CMSI Founder, Patricia Aufderheide who moderates the next panel. (Photo by Max Taylor)Patricia talks about the next panel "Stories Powering Civic Practice" which does a deep dive into how nonfiction storytelling fuels activism and public engagement and dialogue with issues that matter.(Photo by Max Taylor)Cara Mertes, is Director of JustFilms, the Ford Foundation’s documentary initiative. In this capacity, she has designed and overseen an integrated social justice moving image strategy working across all of Ford’s offices and strategies, globally and across the United States. (Photo by Max Taylor)Molly Murphy co-directs Working Films, a nonprofit that uses documentary film to advance social justice and environmental protection. (Photo by Max Taylor)Kimberly Reed is a documentary filmmaker whose most recent film, DARK MONEY, was an award-winning selection at the 2018 Sundance Film Festival and named one of Vogue’s “66 Best Documentaries of All Time.” (Photo by Max Taylor)Jamie Dobie is Executive Director of Peace is Loud, a nonprofit founded by filmmaker Abigail Disney that uses the power of storytelling to advance social movement building, with a focus on supporting women who are leading their communities in confronting violence. (Photo by Max Taylor)CMSI Founder Patricia Aufderheide (Photo by Max Taylor)(Photo by Max Taylor)(Photo by Max Taylor)We love it when our panelists have fun! (Photo by Max Taylor)L to R- Molly Murphy, Patricia Aufderheide, Cara Mertes, Kim Reed and Jamie Dobie (Photo by Max Taylor)(Photo by Max Taylor)(Photo by Max Taylor)Brenda Coughlin is the Director of Producing and Impact Strategy, for the Sundance Institute, a position that drives the Institute’s cross-disciplinary and artist-forward impact strategy, focused on the production of compelling work across documentary, fiction, and emerging media, as well as Sundance’s engagement program and advocacy for independent art and media. (Photo by Max Taylor)Denali Tiller is an artist and award-winning filmmaker working in non-fiction forms. She is best known for her work directing and producing Tre Maison Dasan, a feature length documentary about three boys who each have a parent in prison. (Photo by Max Taylor)Sonya Childress currently serves as the Director of Partnerships and Engagement for Firelight Media. Firelight Media was born in 2000 to address the deficit of films made by and about diverse communities, particularly people of color, founded by award-winning documentarian Stanley Nelson and nonprofit executive Marcia Smith. (Photo by Max Taylor)(Photo by Max Taylor)(Photo by Max Taylor)L to R- Brenda Coughlin, Caty Borum Chattoo, Sonya Childress and Denali Tiller (Photo by Max Taylor)A huge thank you to all our attendees (we had a sold out conference!) (Photo by Max Taylor)See you at the next Story Movements! (Photo by Max Taylor)
