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.
Learn more about Matthews' work and background from a recent Pozen News story.
From DREAMers and the Movement for Black Lives, to queer and trans resistance, #MeToo, healthcare-for-all, and domestic worker organizing, social movements have helped tell a new story of America—an inclusive vision galvanizing and empowering a new generation.
Learn how movement leaders have honed communication techniques, political messages, and storytelling strategies in a new struggle for narrative power.
This program is the second in a Pozen Center series on Stories of Human Rights, which focuses on the interplay of human rights and storytelling.
Organized by the Pozen Family Center for Human Rights
Co-sponsors: Center for the Study of Race, Politics & Culture, Center for the Study of Gender and Sexuality, Black Grad Coalition, Organization for Latin American Students (OLAS), Association of Latinx Students for Social Justice (ALAS).
LUNCH will be provided for those who Register.
This is the second event in the Pozen Center's Stories of Human 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. Read more here.
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.
Tracye Matthews, executive director of the Center for the Study of Race, Politics & Culture, will moderate the Q&A. Tracye is a curator, filmmaker, and historian working within and between the realms of academia, public history, museums, and documentary film.