Narrative Initiative Welcomes Noor Mir as New Chief of Staff
Narrative Initiative is excited to announce Noor Mir as our new Chief of Staff. She will lead efforts to align our programmatic work with our vision and lead internal management of our organization. Narrative Initiative is a strategy hub that collaborates with movements to transform deeply held values and beliefs to make equity and justice […]
Rinku Sen named Executive Director of Narrative Initiative
Rinku Sen succeeds founding Executive Director Jee Kim to help the social sector harness the power of narrative to make progress towards a more equitable and socially just world. Rinku Sen named Narrative Initiative Executive Director. Sen will join the organization on December 1, 2020. Today, Narrative Initiative is excited to announce Rinku Sen as […]
Transition at Narrative Initiative
A Letter from the Narrative Initiative Advisory Board Dear Partners: We hope this note finds you and your loved ones healthy and safe. As we all try and make sense of what is happening in the world today, it is indisputable that narratives matter. The stories we tell ourselves now – and enact through our […]
Narrative infrastructure to build a bigger we
Campaigners, funders, strategists and storytellers are all thinking about the systems and tools needed to measure, teach and test narrative change strategies. At Meeting the Populist Moment, a convening co-hosted by Narrative Initiative and Open Society Foundations in Berlin this past June, participants spoke of narrative infrastructure in a time of rising populism. We spoke […]
Three lessons for creating powerful collaborative gatherings
Narrative Initiative recently brought 100 people from around the world to Berlin for Meeting the Populist Moment. From idea to execution, we learned lessons about the power of bringing people together from a small office in Brooklyn. Successful gatherings connect people and create conditions for the formation of a “we.” Pulling off a convening with […]
Narrative Strategy in a Populist Moment
Last week, organizers, storytellers, artists and technologists from North America and Europe gathered in Berlin for three days at Meeting the Populist Moment. The convening was part of a longer process exploring how the global rise of populism is rupturing traditional political systems and resulting in opportunities to shift deep narratives on race, the economy, […]
Toward New Gravity Today
Recapping, and reflecting on, what over 100 changemakers told us about narrative change and grassroots advocacy. The human impulse–no, necessity–to make sense of the world, to justify values and bolster beliefs, is innate and immutable. Two years ago, the Narrative Initiative (NI) team interviewed over 100 people working in and around narrative change. We spoke […]
Welcome the Narrative Initiative’s New Advisory Board Members
We’re excited to introduce you to the Narrative Initiative’s Advisory Board. Each of these people inspires us daily with their deep experience and innovative ideas. Collectively, it’s a diverse group working in advocacy, storytelling, strategic communications, nonprofit leadership, law, academics and other fields. We also want to thank outgoing Advisory Board members: Elizabeth Cahill, Ben […]