Alicia Bell

Founding Director & Director of the Racial Equity in Journalism Fund

Media 2070 & Borealis Philanthropy

Alicia Bell (pronouns: they/she) is a community organizer and media transformation doula working at the intersections of afrofuturist imagination, journalism, land, food, and all the spaces in between. Alicia dreams, strategizes, and organizes to win media reparations and create a media ecosystem where everyone can thrive. They’ve arrived where they are via a path that includes electoral, parent, student and youth, housing, health and police accountability organizing in North Carolina, New York, and Oakland. Alicia is also a parent, member of a gardening collective, and lover of big bodies of nature.

Participating Sessions

FUTURIST WRITERS ROOM: THE FUTURE OF REALITY

Journalism and documentary are both technologies of capturing and interrogating the real. But how might the ways in which we represent reality have changed 20 years ago to head off the current crisis of misinformation? And how might news creators and audiences experience a more nuanced and pluralistic version of reality in 2040? Jessica Clark of the Guild of Future Architect’s New/s Initiative will host a participatory session inviting attendees...