Stories Worth Sharing- Swimmers, Artists & Miners

Happy Friday! Sending blessings to all on this hot (and stinky here in Chinatown) day. May your day be filled with iced drinks, cool water and AC. We’ve been editing up a storm in our studio this week and we can’t wait to show the fruits of our labor in the coming weeks. Until then, enjoy these stories… I absolutely love this story made by California Is a Place (which produces stories in-you guessed it- California). It begins as a story of a synchronized swimming team but expands to explore more »

Poor People’s Freedom Club

Today is the launch of the final video in the Courage in the Heart storytelling series which shows how BRAC is creating cataclysmic change in Bangladesh by empowering women to be aware of their rights and organize to address social issues.  Our final story is Selena’s. Her father wanted her to get married when she was 13 but her mother enlisted the support of the BRAC Citizen Action Group. A group of twelve women approached her husband and informed him that if he tried to go through with the marriage, more »

Courage in the Heart Launches!

This past summer,  I traveled to Bangladesh for nine weeks with Patricia Schneidewind and Ethan Goldwater to document BRAC, the world’s largest development organization’s social justice initiatives. Today, on the 100th anniversary of International Women’s Day we are launching Courage in the Heart, an online storytelling platform featuring the stories of 12 women who are radically changing the consensus about the value of women by organizing to demand their rights. Visit the site here: www.brac.net/courageintheheart Mussamat struck us with her beauty from the moment we saw her. She greeted us more »

Women listen to a BRAC Gender Justice Educator talk about how to end gender based violence.

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    But too often, the voices of pessimism drown out those creating and experiencing change.

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