Strategic Storytelling: Video As Policy Changer
Today's criminal justice reform movement tends to advocate in broad terms, using hashtags such as #blacklivesmatter and #endmassincarceration to raise public awareness of critical issues. However, advocates can't ask legislators to simply "end mass incarceration"--a more targeted approach is needed to reform entrenched policies. Our session will explore how advocates, visual storytellers, lawyers, and artists can combine expertise to unravel the web of policies and practices that create an inherently unfair criminal justice system for poor people and minorities. Using recent innovative case studies, we'll consider social impact storytelling strategies with the potential for broad scale.
Presenters
Adam Stofsky
Exec Dir
New Media Advocacy Project
Adam is the founder and Executive Director of the N-Map. Adam is a graduate of Amherst College (1998) and Harvard Law School (2004). After finishing law school, he served as a law clerk for the Uni...
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Photojournalist/Filmmaker
ED KASHI STUDIO
Ed Kashi is a photojournalist, filmmaker and educator dedicated to documenting the social and political issues that define our times. A sensitive eye and an intimate relationship to his subjects ar...
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Artist & Writer
The Lavin Agency
Molly Crabapple is an artist and writer in New York. Her memoir, Drawing Blood, is available in bookstores everywhere. Called "An emblem of the way art can break out of the gilded gallery" by the N...
Show the restWesley Caines
Reentry Specialist
Brooklyn Defender Services
Wesley Caines has a passion for helping people help themselves. He is proud to be a Reentry Specialist/Coordinator/Advocate for Brooklyn Defender Services and each day he finds new and creative way...
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