Antoinette Isama is a Brooklyn-based culture journalist and editor documenting the global impact of creativity from Africa and its diaspora. Currently, she's the co-founder of FourTwo Creative, a Black women-led creative agency building culturally-relevant brands that thrive in the digital space.
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Host a successful community listening session: Advice from API Inclusion Index leaders
Community listening is a crucial tenet of improving community engagement, along with asset mapping and collaborating with other local news outlets — all part of the API Inclusion Index cohort’s efforts toward better engaging communities of color.
API Inclusion Index cohort learns community listening and asset mapping basics in Pittsburgh
The cohort came to the in-person training session with enthusiasm and will to begin to make a change with how they best serve the communities they engage with and report on.
Q&A with Danielle K. Brown on LIFT Project’s approach to centering community voices
"I think that the LIFT Project stemmed from that experience of what one does when they find the same patterns and the intervention isn’t working.”
