Karen Elliott Greisdorf
Director of Communications
FAST FAVORITES
informing the movement in me
Book - This Here Flesh: Spirituality, Liberation, and the Stories That Make Us by Cole Arthur Riley
Song - Freedom by Jon Batiste
Podcast - How To Citizen with Baratunde
Artist - Stephen Towns & Bisa Butler
Activist Ancestor - Joan Trumpauer Mulholland
From my work in the Southern U.S. to now here in New England, I am passionate about nurturing and sustaining narrative change through the harnessing of images and stories. I deeply appreciate being able to elevate the stories of those closest to the issues through MCAN and believe in the power to not only transform lives, but also systems.
Through my role, I lead MCAN’s storytelling work to amplify leaders voices and support the work of our affiliates across the Commonwealth through training and strategy development. I am grateful to bring my experience as a photographer and filmmaker to our network and also connect visuals with the power of the written word and compelling design.
After growing up in South Florida and living in Washington, DC for three decades, I believe it’s by divine design that I am now living in the area where my roots run deep. Wrestling with and unpacking my family’s history here is not always comfortable, but it is key in my own work of disrupting the status quos that continue to breed inequity and injustice in the Commonwealth. I believe that as MCAN leads this work here in the state, it can have an impact on the nation as a whole.
IN THE FIELD
Leading the creative strategy and documentation to help bring William Allen home after 28 years of incarceration has been one of the proudest journeys of my professional life.