Event: #MeToo Through a Solutions Lens
We’re catalyzing the next wave of #MeToo storytelling in a wide variety of mediums and regions.
These first nine months have allowed us to start seeing the magnitude of the issue. Now, the months and years ahead have to be focused on solutions.
— Tarana Burke, the activist who created #MeToo, as quoted in The New York Times
AGENDA | MEET OUR SPEAKERS | LOCATION | REGISTRATION
The Solutions Journalism Network is hosting a convening on October 22, 2018 in New York City and launching a fund for journalists interested in exploring solutions to the wide variety of problems that have been surfaced during this historic moment of reckoning.
By collaborating with a small group of philanthropic partners (led by the Woodcock and NoVo Foundations) and the City College of New York (CCNY) journalism program, we will catalyze the next wave of #MeToo storytelling in a wide variety of mediums and regions.
The convening will gather 75 of the nation’s most influential and intentionally diverse reporters, editors, illustrators, photographers, and producers and activists, academics, and other experts to look at what some of the “long tail” stories in this critical moment of exploding public awareness might be. These media makers will then be encouraged to apply for funding in order to follow up on stories that they find most promising regarding how institutions, individuals, and the nation — as a whole — can change.
It is our goal that the combination of the one-day convening and the fund will catalyze powerful investigations that make us all smarter and more equipped to realize the equity that this tipping point moment suggests might be possible.
Agenda (subject to change)
9am: Breakfast
9:30am: Welcome by co-founder Courtney E. Martin
9:45am: How do we cover how kids learn about gender, sex, and power? with Brittney MacNamara (TeenVogue), Maggie Jones (The New York Times), Brian O’Connor (Futures Without Violence), and student Mynaja Ferguson
10:45am: Transformative Justice with Ejeris Dixon and Miriam Zoila Perez
11:15am: Breakout groups, including Solutions Journalism 101 (David Bornstein, Solutions Journalism Network), Overview of Legal Solutions (Emily Martin, National Women’s Law Center and Irene Jor of National Domestic Workers Alliance), and Using Documentary Film as a Tool of Culture Change (Joe Samalin, Roll Red Roll).
12:00pm: Lunch & discussion
1:00pm: Lightning talks by Erin Wade, Kainaz Amaria (Vox), Jaime-Alexis Fowler, and Jennifer Dillon of the National Domestic Workers Alliance
2:00pm: Breakout groups, including Solutions Journalism 101 (Tina Rosenberg, Solutions Journalism Network), Men as Allies within Media (Andrew Marantz, The New Yorker and Darnell Moore, Breakthrough), and How to Engage Audiences Around Solutions (Liza Gross, Solutions Journalism Network).
3:00pm: Live taping of On Being with Krista Tippett, in conversation with Rebecca Traister and Avi Klein
4:15pm: Widening the lens of our reporting beyond Hollywood with David Bornstein (Solutions Journalism Network), Melissa Cassutt (Jackson Hole News&Guide), Chelsea Fuller (#MeToo), Evelyn Rangel-Medina (ROC-United), and Linda Villarosa (New York Times Magazine)
5:15pm: Closing and official launch of fund
5:30pm: Happy hour
Meet Our Speakers
We have over two dozen speakers joining us, including:
As Visuals Editor, Kainaz Amaria runs an interdisciplinary team specializing in graphics, interactives, photography, data and design. Previously, she was an editor on NPR’s Visual Team. Before all the desk jobs, she was a freelance photojournalist based in Mumbai, India.
Jennifer Dillon serves as the National Domestic Workers Alliance’s Communications Director. She leads the organization in developing strategic communication and culture change strategies that position domestic workers as an essential leading voice in the intersection of immigration, labor, gender, and racial justice issues.
Chelsea Fuller previously worked as a reporter, columnist and copy editor at The Dominion Post in Morgantown, WV, and was editor-in-chief of The Urban Outlook, an online publication focused on news and issues affecting the nation’s underrepresented populations. She is a regular contributor on issues of race, culture and justice for The Root and the Huffington Post, and is the Co-chair of the National Association of Black Journalists’ Young Journalist Task Force.
Maggie Jones is a contributing writer for The New York Times Magazine where she covers gender, race, youth, poverty, family, immigration and other issues. She also teaches writing at the University of Pittsburgh undergrad and MFA programs. She was finalist for a National Magazine Award and a Nieman Fellow at Harvard University.
Avi Klein is a psychotherapist based in New York City. His work is devoted to helping men, women and couples heal old wounds and cultivate deeper connections with their selves and each other.
Andrew Marantz is a staff writer at The New Yorker. He is at work on a book about social-media radicalization and fringe politics.
Emily Martin is Vice President for Education & Workplace Justice at the National Women’s Law Center. She oversees the Center’s advocacy, policy, and education efforts to ensure fair treatment and equal opportunity for women and girls at work and at school and to forward policy frameworks that allow then to achieve and succeed, with a particular focus on the obstacles that confront women and girls of color and women in low-wage jobs.
Brittney McNamara is an award-winning journalist and editor who has been reporting on issues including sexual assault since 2014. In her current role as the wellness news editor at Teen Vogue, Brittney has written and edited stories on sexual assault, from campus rape to the #MeToo movement.
A former marketer of global brands, Brian O’Connor began his career in advertising before shifting to journalism where he was a reporter in New York City. He is now the Director of Public Education Campaigns and Programs at Futures Without Violence where he uses his communications knowhow to craft national and international violence prevention campaigns for the organization.
Darnell Moore is Breakthrough’s Head of Strategy & Programs. Darnell is an award-winning writer and activist, a leader in the Movement for Black Lives, and a tireless advocate for justice and liberation.
Miriam Zoila Pérez is a queer Cuban-American writer and activist. Their writing has appeared in the New York Times, Splinter, Colorlines, The Nation, The American Prospect, Rewire.News and Talking Points Memo, among other outlets.
Joe Samalin co-founded and runs MenChallening, an online campaign and resource engaging men in ending gender-based violence. He is also currently a consultant on men’s engagement with numerous colleges and universities as well as the NYC Department of Parks and Recreation.
Krista Tippett is a Peabody-award winning broadcaster, National Humanities Medalist, and New York Times bestselling author. She founded and leads The On Being Project, hosts the globally esteemed On Being public radio show and podcast, and curates the Civil Conversations Project, an emergent approach to conversation and relationship across the differences of our age.
Rebecca Traister is writer at large for New York magazine and a contributing editor at Elle. A National Magazine Award finalist, she has written about women in politics, media, and entertainment from a feminist perspective for The New Republic and Salon and has also contributed to The Nation, The New York Observer, The New York Times, The Washington Post, Vogue, Glamour and Marie Claire. She is the author of All the Single Ladies and the award-winning Big Girls Don’t Cry.
Erin Wade is the Founder and CEO of Homeroom — a restaurant dedicated to the best food on earth: macaroni and cheese. Erin authored the best-selling Mac and Cheese Cookbook, and her writing has appeared in the Washington Post and Conscious Company Magazine.
Location
The City College of the City University of New York is a public senior college of the City University of New York in New York City. Located in Hamilton Heights overlooking Harlem in Manhattan, City College’s 35-acre Collegiate Gothic campus spans Convent Avenue from 130th to 141st Streets
Physical address:
160 Convent Avenue
New York, NY 10031
Registration
If you’re a journalist, and would like to attend, join our network and email us.
If you’re not a journalist: tweet story ideas with hashtags #metoo #solutionstoo. We’ll let the journalists in attendance know about the leads you send in!
Also: Contribute to our fund to support journalists in reporting stories about solutions to the gender, sex, and power issues raised by the #metoo movement. See details here.
