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Courtney Cook
- Location:
- United States
- Languages:
- English
- Issues:
- Disability Rights, LGBTQIA+, Education, Racial Injustice, Gun Violence, Mass Incarceration & Criminal Justice Reform, Economic Injustice, Privacy and Surveillance, Labor issues, Women and Girls, Gender violence
- Expertise:
- Educational materials, Impact Producing, Consulting, Impact Strategist/Advisor, Campaign Implementation, Crafting Classroom Materials, Impact evaluation
- Cultural/racial identity:
- White
- Self identification:
- Gender Queer
Bio
Courtney B. Cook, Phd is an impact producer, writer, educator/facilitator, and researcher with more than 15 years of experience of using multi-media storytelling to drive social change. At POV, she develops strategic national engagement campaigns with her team, and is responsible for producing film resources for all POV features and shorts. She received her PhD in Cultural Studies in Education from the University of Texas, Austin and is trained as a qualitative researcher with an intimate knowledge of historically-rooted systems, practices, and ideas and their intersectional impacts on systems, people, and communities today. Specializing in the way power impacts the lives of the most marginalized, ethics, and alternative modes of storytelling that refuse colonial, white supremacist, patriarchal and neoliberal norms; she consults in areas of ideating, narrative framing, history, research, writing, power, ethics, the American South, and liberatory models of education.
