Attendees: If you are asked for a passcode as you enter the webinar, please use this code: 512978Writer/filmmaker/theatre artist, Shontina Vernon, works using film, multimedia, music, and performance to explore black cultural histories and subjectivities, intergenerational legacies around trauma, and queer identity. She is a 2020 Art for Justice Grantee, a Creative Capital Awardee, and a Robert Rauschenberg Artist as Activist Fellow. Vernon, who serves as Lead Producer of the
Visionary Justice StoryLab, will draw from her early experiences with the criminal justice system to illuminate the necessity of liberatory storytelling frameworks that creatively engage young people and their communities in disrupting narratives of erasure.