Julie Parker Benello
Co-Founder, Chicken & Egg Pictures | Founder & Managing Director, Gamechanger Films
Some of the brightest people in the ecosystem of change – people who create, fund, and need story-based media – contribute intellectual capital to Active Voice Lab. Intergenerational, diverse, and fully committed to social justice, they informally contribute ideas, critiques and opinions to our process.
For almost a decade, we’ve been building trusting, long-term relationships across sectors that share common goals—even when that means recognizing the existence of uncomfortable situations and power dynamics.
These funders of social issue media offer us a wide range of perspective and insight, especially when it comes to the challenges they face when supporting arts and culture.
These filmmakers, media makers, and artists are committed to contributing to social change. Their far-reaching and diverse opinions about complex issues like evaluation and sustainability have informed our research to date.
We’re thrilled to convene a working group of some of the most innovative evaluators in the intersecting fields of social justice, community change, and entertainment. This unprecedented peer-to-peer network and advisory group offers us candid and independent feedback about our programmatic process and strategies, our evaluative approach, and our ongoing learning about the value of story and strategy in social – and policy change efforts.
As uber champions of leveraging media to bring people together to solve problems, these high level strategists and decision makers at major national organizations have worked with Active Voice and Active Voice Lab over time. Their feedback is invaluable.