Get to know our team: Our Find the Right Words Workshop Facilitators and Leaders.

Our 2021 Find the Right Words workshop facilitators are communications and storytelling experts who are passionate about using words to create change. Each of these thought leaders are trained in running culturally sensitive, trauma-informed and creatively compelling workshops that are ambitious, engaging and timely.

Jimmy Briggs

Vanity Fair Contributor, Man Up Founder

Nikki Patin

Founder Surviving the Mic, Community Engagement Director for CAASE

Marline Johnson

The Stories We Tell Youth Program Coordinator for The Voices and Faces Project

Anne K. Ream

Founder of The Voices and Faces Project and author of Lived Through This

R. Clifton Spargo

Novelist, Yale University Creative Writing Instructor and Co-Creator of The Stories We Tell

Katie Feifer

Research Director, & CounterQuo Project Leader of The Voices and Faces Project

Firuzeh Shokooh Valle

Investigative Journalist and Assistant Professor of Sociology at Franklin and Marshall College

Aimee Bravo Noffsinger

Aimee Bravo-Noffsinger

Theatrical Initiatives Advisor for The Voices and Faces Project