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Some of our previous projects include:
5 Girls
About Us
| Active Voice is a team of strategic communication specialists who put powerful media to work for personal and institutional change in communities, workplaces, and campuses across America. Through our practical guides, hands-on workshops, stimulating events and key partnerships nationwide, Active Voice moves people from thought to action. By highlighting compelling personal stories and perspectives seldom found in mainstream media, we offer a much-needed outlet to people across America to speak out, listen up, and take the initiative for positive change. |
Background
The seeds of Active Voice (AV) were planted at P.O.V., PBS's
ongoing series of independent "point-of-view" nonfiction films.
In 1993 then P.O.V. Executive Producer Ellen Schneider developed a model
for leveraging the powerful human dimension of these award-winning films.
Over the next four years, with support from Ford Foundation and MacArthur
Foundation, she joined forces with media strategists, diversity trainers
and facilitators to refine a sustainable model for linking social issue documentaries
with community and national organizations. This team launched the Television
Race Initiative (TRI), which used programs about race, culture and identity
as a framework for community problem solving around issues of domestic race
relations. TRI evolved into Active Voice in 2001. A full-service organization,
AV maintains close ties with P.O.V. and other PBS programs, while expanding into
additional venues, such as broadband, cable, theatrical releases and DVD distribution.