This second session of the Skoll Foundation’s Racial Justice Town Hall series is a conversation grounded in the belief that authentic, representative storytelling is a pathway for increased racial justice and equity building for non-White communities and will ask among other questions: “What happens when historically underrepresented groups create space for their stories in the national narrative? What does it take to accomplish it?” “How can storytelling across media mitigate and heal racial trauma?”
Presented as part of the 2021 Sundance Film Festival.
Darius Simpson is an award-winning spoken word artist, writer, proud wearer of crocs, and social justice activist born in Akron, Ohio. He received his bachelor's degree in Political Science from Eastern Michigan University. During his time there, as a coach and participant, he led the EMU slam poetry…
Board, NDN Collective, Creative Producer, Molly Of Denali
Princess Daazhraii Johnson is Neets’aii Gwich’in and her family is from Arctic Village, Alaska. Johnson is the former Executive Director for the Gwich’in Steering Committee and is a founding member of the Fairbanks Climate Action Coalition. She also has experience working on climate adaptation for…
When he joined the Foundation in 2020, he had more than two decades of experience as a journalist, author and activist. He was a co-founder and executive director emeritus of Man Up Campaign, a global initiative to activate youth to stop violence against women and girls. This led to his selection…
Charles declared in his 1996 law school graduation year book that, one day, he would be the head of a diversified entertainment and media company. And a little over 15 years later, that proclamation became MACRO. As CEO, he casts the overall vision, mission and strategic goals for all things…
Co-Founder/Editorial Director TEDWomen; Managing Partner, Connected Women Leaders; Co-Founder, Project Dandelion, Pat Mitchell Media
Pat Mitchell is a lifelong advocate for womenʼs leadership who has used her diverse spheres of influence to elevate womenʼs stories and representation and to lead for a more just, equitable and sustainable world. Currently, sheʼs the Co-Founder of Connected Women Leaders, a collective problem…
Director of Content: Race, Community and Our Shared Future, Smithsonian Institution
Dr. Ariana A. Curtis is the first curator of Latinx Studies at the Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture. In this role she leads museum research and collections related to: U.S. Latinx, U.S. Afro-Latinx, African American & Latinx, the African Diaspora in Latin America, and…
