Join the Creative Change Coalition for a technical assistance workshop with Trevor Smith. In this workshop, we’ll explore what narrative power is, how it is built, and the infrastructure needed to sustain it. Participants will examine the stories shaping this moment, identify gaps in their own narrative ecosystems, and leave with practical tools on how to engage in different narrative labor. This session is for strategists ready to move beyond messaging toward longer-term narrative power.
All are welcome, designed for place-based organizations.
Trevor Smith
Bio: Trevor Smith (he/him) is the Co-Founder and Executive Director of the BLIS Collective. He is a writer, researcher, and strategist focused on racial inequality, wealth inequality, reparations, and narrative change. Previously, he was the Director of Narrative Change at Liberation Ventures, a field-builder accelerating the Black-led movement for reparations, where he launched the Reparations Narrative Lab, a creative and research space designed to build narrative power across the movement for reparations.
He previously held program and communications positions at the Surdna Foundation, New York Civil Liberties Union, Center on Budget and Policy Priorities, and M+R Strategic Services. He received his BA in Journalism from American University. He is a son and a brother originally from Maryland, by way of Freetown, Sierra Leone. He currently resides in Lenapehoking, now known as New York City. Learn more at bliscollective.org.
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