Demonstrates the ability to use digital storytelling; visual design, film, video, and production skills, to highlight or address a social justice issue.
# 1 in 13 Georgia Justice
This project examines the consequences of agenda setting, framing, visual rhetoric and power distance on the black communitunity through the perspective of the black females impacted by mass incarceration. This digital documentary entitled, One Man’s Journey, exposes family trauma, adverse childhood experiences (ACE), and teacher bias as a systematic contributors of mass incarceration.
This project uses to use digital storytelling as an opportunity to highlight systematic and structural oppression and assist women in developing self-reflection techniques and leadership skills in an effort increase their quality of life. As GA continues to lead in the incarceration of its citizens, our projects inspect the links between slavery, mass incarceration, and the school to prison pipeline from the black female perspective.
