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Communications Institute LogoThe Opportunity Agenda’s Communications Institute is one of the nation’s premier social justice communications training programs. For over a decade, the Communications Institute has brought together diverse social justice leaders from across the country to receive intensive training, tools, and support to supercharge the effectiveness of their communications and narrative strategies.  

Housed within the Narrative Innovators Lab, the Communications Institute provides Fellows the opportunity to ideate and collaborate with participants from our Culture & Narrative Fellowship. The Communications Institute curriculum covers a variety of strategic communications skills, including narrative development, utilizing public opinion and media research, on-camera interview preparation, values-based message development, and more. Our hundreds of alumni have gone on to create powerful campaigns and lasting change using the skills and relationships they built through our convenings. 

The 2023 Communications Institute Fellows will receive in-depth training and support through a six-month long program, including:  

  • A week-long, in-person convening with the Cultural & Narrative Fellows in NYC in March 
  • Four digital learning sessions 
  • A four-day long, in-person reflection and closing convening in NYC in September 

Stevie Paz

Digital Organizer, NM Comunidades en Accion y de Fe (CAFe) & CAFe Action

Stevie Paz was born and raised in Las Cruces, New Mexico, about 100 miles away from the border. She graduated from New Mexico State University with a Bachelors in Criminal Justice. She has been a New Mexico Comunidades en Accion y de Fe now for 6 years. Stevie believes that...

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Mandy Stark Culbertson

Senior Director of Communications, Caring Across Generations

Mandy Culbertson, Senior Director of Communications at Caring Across Generations, loves shaping narratives that challenge norms, change behavior, and spur others to action. She believes in the power of media and content to tell the stories that matter and the inherent ability of good storytelling to create common ground.

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Stephanie Teatro

Director of Climate Justice & Migration, The Climate Justice Collaborative at the National Partnership for New Americans

Stephanie is the Director of Climate Justice and Migration at the National Partnership for New Americans. In this role, Stephanie helps lead the Climate Justice Collaborative, an initiative to build the capacity of immigrant justice organizations to powerfully join the fight for climate justice.

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Alice Tianyi Liu

Co-Director of Communications, West Street Recovery; Gulf South for Green New Deal

Alice Tianyi Liu is a Houston-based writer and organizer working in disaster recovery and climate justice. She is a queer, 24-year- old Chinese-American who is fueled by hope and rage that we must reshape our economy and political system to be oriented towards life and care instead of extraction and...

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Pamela Winn

Founding Director, RestoreHER US.America

Known as "The Face of Dignity For Incarcerated Women", Pamela Winn is an activist from Atlanta, GA who studied Biology at Spelman College, received three degrees in Nursing, and worked over 10 years as a Registered Women’s Health Nurse prior to serving a 78-month federal sentence for a white-collar crime...

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