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Shanelle Matthews collaborates with social justice activists, organizations, and campaigns to inspire action and build narrative power for social justice and liberation. She recently completed her tenure as the communications director. She founded (RadComms)—a global community of practice for social movement communications workers, and is a former faculty of Resistance Narratives at The New School. Shanelle is a Distinguished Lecturer at City College at the City University of New York. She is co-editor of a forthcoming anthology that details world-building narrative campaigns and strategies led by social movement communications workers in the 21st century.

B.A. Louisiana State University

• Narrative Power in the Black Radical Tradition
• Resistance Narratives from 21st-Century Social Movements

Narrative Power, Black Liberation, Rhetoric of Social Movements, U.S. leftist social movements

Non-Profit Quarterly 

Radical Communicators Network, CPIC, Milli 

Non-Profit Quarterly 

Non-Profit Quarterly 

Public Seminar 

Washington Post 

Bustle 

Rewire 

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