Writers

Shanelle Matthews

Shanelle Matthews collaborates with social justice activists, organizations, and campaigns to inspire action and build narrative power for justice and liberation. She is the former communications director for the Movement for Black Lives and a Distinguished Lecturer in the anthropology and interdisciplinary studies department at City College of the City University of New York. Shanelle founded Radical Communicators Network (RadComms), a global community of practice movement communications workers, and she is the coeditor of Liberation Stories: Building Narrative Power for 21st Century Social Movements, a forthcoming anthology detailing world-building narrative campaigns and strategies led by social movement communications workers in the 21st century.