CMSI's biennial convening Story Movements was held on 5-6 March 2026CMSI Executive Director Caty Borum welcomes the gatheringA full house at the convening at the beautiful Mansard Room in Planet Word Museum, Washington DCAmerican University School of Communication Dean Marnel Niles Goins sharing welcome remarksPresenting sponsor John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation was represented by Lauren Pabst, Senior Program OfficerMC for the event (third time in a row!) Gabe GonzálezSpeaker Layla Zaidane (Future Caucus)Speaker Clara Blustein Lindholm (Frameworks Institute)Speaker Iman Zawahry (Filmmaker Islamic Scholarship Fund)Speaker Pamela Rae Schuller (Comedian & Disability Advocate)Audience conversation and discussionConvening attendeesCMSI team_ David Conrad-Perez, Varsha Ramani, Carolina Gallo, Rachael Mason and Caty BorumSpeaker Wendy Lobel (Director "Anxiety Club")Speaker Sarah Rose Siskind (Hello SciCom)16-Speaker Esteban Gast (Generation180)17-Speaker Tina Friml (Comedian)18-Speaker Baron Vaughn (Comedian)19-Audience conversation and discussionComedy Show "Oh! We Can Joke About That!?"21-Sharing a laugh togetherDay 2: Denae Peters (Sr. Program Officer, Perspective Fund) talks about CMSI's documentary field building research23-Speaker Caty Borum launching the latest iteration of CMSI's global study of documentary professionals State of the Documentary Field now in its tenth yearSpeaker Wing Har (Jolt)Speaker Lisa Leeman (School of Cinematic Arts, USC)Speaker Chris Hastings (WXXI)Audience conversation and discussionLAVENDER SCARE GAME SHOW hosted by Gabe GonzálezSpeaker Andrew deWaard (University of California San Diego)Speaker Julie Ann Crommett (Collective Moxie)Speaker Nima Shirazi (Spitfire Strategies)Audience conversation and discussion Thank you for joining us at Story MovementsThank you for joining us at Story Movements
