Storytelling for Movement Building

Presented by Kara Andrade 

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We have begun to take control of own narratives, telling our stories using whatever tool and digital means is available to us. We have not only begun to tell our stories, but we’ve connected them to others around the world simultaneously and in a networked manner. The storyteller becomes a diplomat, a trickster, an opportunity creator, an entrepreneur, a node for change.

How do we tell our stories? How do we help others tell their stories? How do we create opportunities by telling these stories both for ourselves and others? When does our personal story shift from “me” to “us”? How do we make these shifts? How do we inspire action and empower others to tell their story? How does information and technology help us do that? What are the emerging trends in storytelling that can help us become changemakers both online and offline.

Storytelling for social change will offer hands-on instruction to individuals and organizations alike seeking to use the ever-expanding toolkit of media for social change and peacebuilding.

Presenter Bio:

Kara Andrade is an Ashoka Fellow working in Central America coordinating HablaCentro, an organization and technology platform that allows users to send and receive information via text messages that are also posted to local hub websites in Guatemala, Honduras, El Salvador, Costa Rica, and Venezuela. She was funded by the U.S. State Department to implement a mobile-based citizen-journalism website in her native Guatemala. She has 10 years experience in nonprofit development, public health and community organizing. She worked as a multimedia producer and photojournalist for Agence France-Presse, Americas Quarterly, Associated Press, Christian Science Monitor, France 24, Global Post, ReVista: Harvard Review of Latin America, The New York Times and other publications. She holds an M.A. in journalism from the University of California Berkeley.