Engagement Lab

🏆Last night we had the pleasure of attending the 22nd annual Emerson Film Festival. We presented our inaugural Social Impact Award to Gund Kwok!
📣At the Engagement Lab, we believe strongly in the power of film — and all collaborative storytelling forms – to create meaningful change by elevating awareness of social issues and amplifying the voices and stories of underrepresented communities.
🎥This film is a tremendous example of precisely the sort of civically-engaged creativity that Emerson is uniquely positioned to cultivate and support both here on campus and throughout our city and world.

While we are closely monitoring the COVID-19 situation and what it may mean for this year’s Salzburg Global Academy, we are still accepting nominations for the Transformative Media Literacy Scholar Award through the end of April.

A brief refresher: this award will provide an emerging teacher, scholar, or activist that is currently engaged in the practice and pedagogy for social justice-oriented media work with a stipend to complete a project in the year that they receive the award along with travel and room/board at the Salzburg Academy on Media Global Change. The form to nominate can be found on www.sjmsymposium.org!

A heartfelt thank you to everyone who attended and participated in our first annual Social Justice and Media Symposium! It was an empowering day of dialogue and activities centering around a shared commitment to engaging in the important working happening at the intersection of social justice and media. We hope to keep this energy going in our hearts and minds as we plan for 2021’s event! @ Emerson College