In this workshop, participants will:
Identify a new way to engage, mobilize, and persuade audiences based on RCN and race forward empirically-based messaging research findings.
Recognize how the opposition is strategically using racism to undermine the government and hijack the economy, as well as ways that we can successfully push back.
Practice using one part of the RCN framework to integrate in their work for honest, equitable, and fully funded public schools.
Ernie Britt is committed to the fight for Black and queer liberation, economic justice, and a multiracial democracy — particularly in the South. He has worked on several high-profile Democratic campaigns as a writer, creative, and digital organizer, including Elizabeth Warren for President and Stacey Abrams for Governor, as well as races in Virginia, North Carolina, South Carolina, and his home state of Florida. In the midst of the COVID pandemic and the 2020 uprisings for racial justice, Ernie led campaigns for the Criminal Justice & Democracy Team at Color Of Change. As a Campaign Director, he managed base-building strategies and narrative research to divest from policing and invest in Black futures, hold corporations accountable for their role in mass incarceration, and push for meaningful criminal justice reform at a critical moment. Now, Ernie serves as the National Narrative Officer at We Make The Future (WMTF), helping organizers build narrative power so that all of us — regardless of race, place, gender, or status — can thrive.
Dennis Chin is the Chief Strategy Officer of We Make The Future (WMTF). In this role, he supports the WMTF team in integrating and executing our strategies - internally and externally - to ensure maximum impact. Previously, he served as the Vice President of Narrative, Arts, and Culture at Race Forward, where he co-designed and implemented Race Forward's narrative strategy for use across its program areas. Based in Queens, NY, Dennis served on the Steering Committee of GAPIMNY, an organization that organizes queer and trans Asian Pacific Islanders in NYC to create positive change. For his work in this role, he received the Community Catalyst Award from the National Queer Asian Pacific Islander Alliance in 2015. Dennis also served on the Board of Directors of CAAAV: Organizing Asian Communities, an organization that builds grassroots community power across working-class Asian immigrants and youth in NYC.