feliciapride | Felicia Pride

About feliciapride

I am a multimedia storyteller, content strategist, and chief content officer at Pride Collaborative. Oh and the founder of The Create Daily. I like thrift stores and dancing.

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To Create

I have a new book out.

This is how it happened:

For the past ten years, I had the pleasure to interview a number of black storytellers, filmmakers, writers and artists. One day, I realized this fact: I had some great content that was scattered and that, at this point, I wasn’t doing much with.

Content that told stories, illuminated experiences and inspired action.

I thought: These words deserve to be assembled into a collection.

By working my publishing contacts, I connected with the wonderful Doug Seibold at Agate Publishing. Together, we put the interviews together and in a fairly short time, released the collection as an ebook.

You can blame the long subtitle on me.

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Education Pride Collaborative Social Change Storytelling To Create

An Interview with Ava DuVernay, writer/director of Middle of Nowhere

I met Ava DuVernay several years back in Philly at the Black Lily Film & Music Festival. I was there hawking copies of The Message. Ava was screening her first documentary feature This is the Life. She stopped by my small table. We chatted and she mentioned her film was also about hip-hop. Word? She was one of few people who purchased a copy of my book. So naturally, I remembered her.

Fast forward. To say DuVernay has been busy these years in between is an understatement that warrants a head jerk. In addition to running a successful film PR business, she’s directed several films including her acclaimed I Will Follow, BET’s My Mic Sounds Nice and the 2010 Essence Music Festival. She’s gone on to be featured by everyone from CNN to the New York Times because of her trailblazing ways. Oh and we can’t forget about Sundance. She was the first African American woman to win the Best Director Award.

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Social Change Storytelling To Create

Everyone as Media Maker

Here’s part of an essay from my forthcoming book To Create: Black Writers, Filmmakers, Storytellers, Artists and Media Makers Riff on Art, Careers, Life, and the Beautiful Mess in Between.

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I tell this story often.

There I was, a bright-eyed, idealistic grad student studying book publishing. I was going to change the world through the printed form.

I was interning at a publisher where I was able to sit in on editorial meetings, the gatherings where decisions were made about what books would be published—what stories would be told, who would tell them, and how.

Something hit me as I looked around the room. There were a multitude of voices missing. I started to wonder how their stories would be told? Who would advocate for them? How would the world learn about their worlds?

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Education Media Talk Storytelling What I've Been Up To

8 Tips for Working with Youth and Media

I’ve had the pleasure to work with youth of all ages – from elementary to college – around media literacy, development, and creation.

Recently, I facilitated a storytelling and media workshop for a group of 50 high school students as part of a drop-out prevention program designed by Mississippi Public Broadcasting called Can I Kick It? In addition to presenting about storytelling, I facilitated a hands-on workshop where the students created short stories using web-based tools.

What a good time! I get so much energy, inspiration, and joy out of working with young people. The added layer of media creation often make young people come alive with excitement because they’ve created something that is bigger than them, that can enter them in a broader conversation, and that can articulate their thoughts, feelings, and dreams.

This recent experience reminded me of a few tips when working with youth and media.

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Pride Collaborative Social Change Storytelling

The Power of Storytelling (Reason 31,286)

Sometimes, I wonder if I’m preaching to the choir when I tout the power of storytelling. The choir being everyone. I mean, don’t we all know how powerful storytelling is?

That’s not me being naive, just optimistic.

But all of that doesn’t matter. Because even if we all know how powerful storytelling is, saying it is one thing, but experiencing its power is another.

That experience never gets old. That experience, I can tout all day, every day.

And I was reminded of that experience the other day as I attended the 2012 International AIDS Conference which takes place this week in Washington, DC. Talk about a global gathering. It is unlike anything I’ve ever experienced.

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Entrepreneurship

Rethink Everything

There are many forces that prevent us from reaching our goals and living the lives we dream of.

I always pointed to fear as the grand puba of them all. Because everything seemed to be tied to fear: procrastination, paralysis, struggle – all roads lead back to it.

But I didn’t account for another grandmaster: conditioning.

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Education

Knowing the Full Story of History

If you’re like me, you were taught that slavery ended with Emancipation Proclamation. Then Rosa Parks refused to give up her seat on the bus and the Civil Rights Movement began.

It wasn’t until adulthood when I realized that I had only a vague understanding of a large part of our history, and that what I was taught regarding slavery in this country was only a part of the story.

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Storytelling

Funding for Immersive Storytelling and Transmedia Projects

Lots of knowledge gaining this week. First up, I attended the Transmedia New York City (now StoryCode) immersive meetup about project funding.

Mike Knowlton, cofounder of StoryCode, discussed the various options that are available to storytellers to fund their projects including self-financing, crowdsourcing, markets, investors/VCs, and grants/labs.

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How (and why!) to Design Strategic Storytelling Campaigns
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Lance Weiler Talks Transmedia, Story Research and Development, and Audience Engagement
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