ADVOCACY
We leverage our creative platform to advance systemic change through narrator collaborations, movement partnerships, and equitable creative ownership models. Our advocacy work spans targeted support for narrators' freedom and healing efforts, creative partnerships with grassroots organizations, and pioneering frameworks that ensure fair compensation and creative control for system-impacted collaborators.
Narrator Collaborations
We elevate and resource our narrators' healing and freedom dreams through targeted advocacy projects. Our inaugural partnership with Keith LaMar exemplifies this work: Keith is a poet and musician who has spent over 30 years in solitary confinement on Death Row after being wrongfully convicted following the 1993 Lucasville Prison Riot. In 2023, The Healing Project helped secure high-profile legal representation for Keith and supported public pressure campaigns that resulted in Governor Mike DeWine delaying his execution until 2027. We continue supporting Keith's retrial efforts through documentary work, community organizing, and creative projects that amplify his voice.
Movement Partnerships
We partner with advocacy organizations to amplify their efforts through artistic collaboration. In 2024, we worked with the End The Exception Campaign—a national effort to remove the slavery exception from the 13th Amendment—composing original music in collaboration with currently and formerly incarcerated narrators to strengthen the campaign. These partnerships allow us to support movements working toward policy change, while building deeper relationships between our creative community and frontline organizers working for systemic transformation.
Co-Ownership Model
Our co-ownership model ensures that system-impacted collaborators receive equitable compensation, creative control, and public credit for their contributions to our artistic works. This framework recognizes that our narrators are not subjects of our art but co-creators whose stories, insights, and creative input are essential to our work's power and authenticity. Through revenue-sharing agreements and collaborative decision-making processes, we challenge traditional extraction models in arts and media, creating sustainable partnerships that honor the intellectual and creative labor of people who have experienced structural violence firsthand.
