Uploaded September 2023 | Updated September 2026, 1 day ago
One of the greatest barriers to overcome in EJ conversations is learning how to effectively communicate nuanced issues to any audience: the public, politicians, corporate actors, and academics. In connection with Intersectional Environmentalist, The Uproot Project, and the People's Climate Innovation Center, this day-long event series explores that intersection; how does one become an effective communicator? What are the modes available to young people to affect change through their voices and diverse media?
This workshop, Justice-Based Communications for Strategic Movement Building with the People's Climate Innovation Center was a storytelling, language, and movement-building workshop led by Radiah Shabazz, Communications Director for the People's Climate Innovation Center.
The Duke Human Rights Center at FHI, the Dewitt Wallace Center for Media and Democracy, and the EJ Oral History Project at Duke hosted the Environmental Justice Storytelling for Impact Summit in the Fuqua School of Business's Geneen Auditorium.
This event was part of a larger summit on environmental justice storytelling for Duke Earth Month 2023. If you'd like to view the associated events, click the links below.
Keynote address with Eileen Tran of Intersection Environmentalist: youtube.com/watch?v=8FM8rdglVbc
Journalism panel discussion with members of the Uproot Project: youtube.com/watch?v=U4z7SFMureU
Workshop hosted by Radiah Shabazz with the People's Climate Innovation Center: youtube.com/watch?v=rfpqwdoaUQE
One of the greatest barriers to overcome in EJ conversations is learning how to effectively communicate nuanced issues to any audience: the public, politicians, corporate actors, and academics. In connection with Intersectional Environmentalist, The Uproot Project, and the People's Climate Innovation Center, this day-long event series explores that intersection; how does one become an effective communicator? What are the modes available to young people to affect change through their voices and diverse media?
This workshop, Justice-Based Communications for Strategic Movement Building with the People's Climate Innovation Center was a storytelling, language, and movement-building workshop led by Radiah Shabazz, Communications Director for the People's Climate Innovation Center.
The Duke Human Rights Center at FHI, the Dewitt Wallace Center for Media and Democracy, and the EJ Oral History Project at Duke hosted the Environmental Justice Storytelling for Impact Summit in the Fuqua School of Business's Geneen Auditorium.
This event was part of a larger summit on environmental justice storytelling for Duke Earth Month 2023. If you'd like to view the associated events, click the links below.
Keynote address with Eileen Tran of Intersection Environmentalist: youtube.com/watch?v=8FM8rdglVbc
Journalism panel discussion with members of the Uproot Project: youtube.com/watch?v=U4z7SFMureU
Workshop hosted by Radiah Shabazz with the People's Climate Innovation Center: youtube.com/watch?v=rfpqwdoaUQE









![tgiFHI with Beverly McIver | “A Promise is a Promise: Loving and Caring for Renee”
Learn more about tgiFHI here: https://fhi.duke.edu/engagement/tgifhi/
“A Promise is a Promise: Loving and Caring for Renee”
Abstract: My talk is inspired by a promise I made to my mom that I would care for my mentally disabled sister, Renee. When my mom died twelve years ago, I became Renees legal guardian. Ive been caring for Renee and recently had to move Renee to assisted living. Ill discuss the importance of keeping a promise, the ups and downs of caretaking and juggling a career as an artist and professor. I will also show a short trailer of the HBO documentary that was made about me and Renee. The filmmakers followed me and Renee for 5 years in order to create Raising Renee. Raising Renee was nominated for an Emmy and was selected and shown at [the Full Frame Documentary Film Festival] 12 years ago.
Beverly McIver is Professor of the Practice of Art in the Department of Art, Art History, and Visual Studies at Duke University.
Watch the trailer for Raising Renee here: https://youtu.be/7bTePE7Pj7c?feature=shared
tgiFHI is a weekly series that gives Duke faculty in the humanities, interpretive social sciences and arts the opportunity to present their current research to their departmental and interdepartmental colleagues, students, and other interlocutors in their fields.
tgiFHI events take place from 9:30–11:00 a.m. on Friday mornings in the Ahmadieh Family Lecture Hall (C105, Bay 4, Smith Warehouse). Our director introduces at the speaker at 9:30 a.m., and the speaker gives a talk of about 45–50 minutes. We then open the floor for discussion, and close at 11:00 a.m. tgiFHI with Beverly McIver | “A Promise is a Promise: Loving and Caring for Renee”](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/uy33Gy8TE3A/mqdefault.jpg)
