Track: Embodying Justice, Dignity, and Power for Migrant Workers
Speakers:
- Kate Brick, Executive Director, Refugee Advocacy Lab
- Cynthia Buiza, Independent Consultant
- Bridgit Antoinette Evans, Chief Executive Officer, Pop Culture Collaborative
- Stephanie Teatro, US Program Director, Unbound Philanthropy
Moderator:
- Marissa Tirona, President, Grantmakers Concerned with Immigrants and Refugees (GCIR)
Session Description:
People have the right to author their own experience, and narrative power is about building agency and self-determination. GCIR has made narrative work one of our central strategies because we understand that narrative power is a way to address root causes and counter misinformation, disinformation, and emerging authoritarian messaging. In this session, we will explore the ways in which movement leaders, funders, and other partners are elevating - and investing in - positive pro-immigrant and pro-refugee narratives. This strategy is critical to countering the prevailing narratives that are designed to evoke a constant state of fear, failure, and chaos.