From 2015-2018, I was an interviewer with the New York Trans Oral History Project (NYTOP). A friend had convinced me to join because I...

The iconic Sundance Film Festival is coming up next week, from January 20th to the 30th, in a virtual format. As always, we’re looking...

We’re gathering up the articles, essays, resources, podcasts and more that made us think about how narrative change is working today....

Scot Nakagawa is a Senior Partner at ChangeLab. Scot has spent more than four decades exploring questions of structural racism, white...

Science fiction is full of all-knowing villains. They can’t be understood or defeated. The unknown, as storytellers from H. G. Wells to...

This article was originally published in 2017 by Rinku Sen. Over the last five years, intersectionality has become a buzzword and an...

Feminist narratives are powering some of the most important movements of the 21st century by turning anger to joy, creating care in...

Narrative change happens fast in times of crisis and national trauma. Let’s look at how the “terrorist” stories of this past week (and...

What would it mean for many voices to come together, each voice individual and distinct, and speak for change in the same direction? A...

Visual narrative includes the photos and video we see in front of us every day. It’s also the fuzzy scenes stored in our memory. These...

Narrative Initiative connects futures and narrative to create power. Futures work gives people space and tools to imagine a world free...

The Constructing Gravity series will share skills, strategies and frameworks to guide narrative change work. These articles present...

The Coronavirus pandemic is shaping (and being shaped by) narratives. These articles, essays, research and resources offer insights into...

Today, tens of millions of Americans are losing their jobs, worried about the health of their families and friends, and feeling fear and...

Deep narratives are built upon deep connections between people. Narrative is a thing (and narrative change is a practice). Deep narrative...

Five experts who joined Narrative Initiative and Open Society Foundations at Meeting the Populist Moment weigh in on narrative practice.

Successful narrative change projects require practitioners to know what strategies work. When to use them. Who their audience is. That...

Technology is neither good nor bad; nor is it neutral. – Melvin Kranzberg I was born in Washington DC in the early 1980s. I have seen...

Campaigners, funders, strategists and storytellers are all thinking about the systems and tools needed to measure, teach and test...

Narrative Initiative recently brought 100 people from around the world to Berlin for Meeting the Populist Moment . From idea to...