Workshops
Workshops on Media, Technology, and the Stories That Shape Everyday Life
I help Black communities understand how media, technology, and storytelling shape everyday life, and I give participants practical tools to respond with wisdom, discernment, and agency.
Sessions are research-based, highly accessible, and tailored to the questions your group is already asking: What can we trust? How do harmful stories spread? How do race and power shape media? How is technology changing our relationships, our children, our organizations, and our communities?
Find the Right Workshop for Your Group
All workshop titles and focus statements are listed below. Select any workshop to read its full description.
Educators & Schools
For teachers, school leaders, universities, student groups, and education-centered organizations.
Race and Media Literacy A clear introduction to race, media, and power.
This workshop introduces the frameworks behind my book and gives educators practical tools for teaching students how race, power, and media work together.
Teaching Through Polarization Helping students think clearly in divided times.
This session helps educators talk about race, media, misinformation, and civic life in classrooms where students bring different assumptions, experiences, and media diets.
AI, Algorithms, and Today’s Students How digital systems shape what students see, believe, create, and trust.
This workshop helps educators understand artificial intelligence, algorithmic bias, platform design, and the ways digital systems affect learning, identity, information, and student life.
Media Literacy Across the Curriculum Practical tools for classrooms beyond journalism and communication.
This session supports educators who want to bring media literacy into writing, history, journalism, communication, civic education, social studies, and student leadership.
Nonprofits & Mission-Driven Organizations
For nonprofits, foundations, advocacy groups, cultural organizations, and institutions serving the public.
Communicating in a Changing Public Climate Helping organizations speak clearly when the language around race and justice is under pressure.
This workshop helps organizations communicate their mission with clarity, credibility, and care when public conversations around race, equity, inclusion, and justice are contested.
Mission-Driven Messaging After DEI Protecting the mission without retreating from justice.
This practical session helps organizations explain their work, clarify their values, and communicate responsibly in an anti-DEI public climate.
Building Trust in Uncertain Times Clear communication for overwhelmed, skeptical, or divided audiences.
This workshop helps organizations understand how trust is built, how trust is damaged, and how mission-driven groups can communicate with consistency and care.
Narrative Power for Nonprofits The stories organizations tell, inherit, and need to challenge.
This session helps nonprofits identify the stories they are telling, the stories being told about them, and the harmful narratives that shape how communities are seen, served, and understood.
Black Women’s Groups & Community Spaces
For women’s ministries, sororities, professional groups, book clubs, senior groups, mother-daughter groups, and intergenerational Black women’s spaces.
Social Media and the Health of Black Relationships How platforms shape friendship, dating, family, conflict, comparison, and community.
This workshop examines how social media affects Black relationships and gives participants practical language for thinking about connection, conflict, care, and digital boundaries.
Protecting Our Peace in the Digital Age A practical conversation about media overload, online conflict, outrage, and comparison.
This session helps participants think about the emotional toll of constant digital exposure and offers practical tools for using media with more intention and less stress.
How Technology Is Changing Black Community Life AI, algorithms, social media, misinformation, and the future of connection.
This workshop helps participants understand how technology is reshaping the ways Black people relate, organize, learn, share information, and understand one another.
The Stories We Inherit and the Stories We Pass On A powerful talk about race, media, memory, family, and responsibility.
This signature session helps participants recognize the stories that shape how Black communities are seen and how we see ourselves. It invites groups to think about which stories deserve to be challenged and which ones deserve to be passed on.
Churches & Faith Communities
For congregations, women’s ministries, senior ministries, civic ministries, and faith-based organizations seeking discernment in a confusing media moment.
Navigating Truth in the Digital Age How to recognize misinformation and become better stewards of what we share.
This session helps faith communities slow down reaction, ask better questions, and respond to misinformation with wisdom, care, and community responsibility.
Media and the Stories That Shape Our Communities The stories society repeats until they feel like common sense.
This signature session introduces master narratives and racial master narratives. Participants learn how harmful stories about Black people are repeated across media, education, politics, entertainment, and social platforms, and how communities can challenge those stories with truth, history, and care.
Raising Media-Literate Families A practical session for parents, grandparents, caregivers, and church leaders.
This workshop helps families and faith leaders support young people as they think critically about media, technology, race, identity, and online life.
Faith, Discernment, and Digital Life Truth, trust, community, and responsibility in a noisy media culture.
This session helps churches talk about digital life, media habits, fear, outrage, trust, and the responsibility communities carry when information moves quickly.
How the Workshops Work
Flexible Formats
Workshops are offered as keynote-style talks, interactive trainings, book talks, facilitated conversations, or multi-session series.
Tailored to Your Group
Each session is adapted to your group’s audience, goals, questions, and level of familiarity with the topic.
Practical Takeaways
Participants leave with clear language, shared frameworks, useful questions, and tools they can apply in their own settings.
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