Luis Ortega: Crafting Anti-Racist Narratives for Community Development

The toolkit utilizes tools designed by Storytellers for Change, aiming to guide users through a five-step process to analyze dominant narratives in community development and devise anti-racist narrative strategies.

ThirdSpace Action Lab, a grassroots solution studio dedicated to prototyping innovative, place-based solutions for socio-economic problems impacting communities of color, collaborated with Storytellers for Change, an organization focused on using narrative and participatory engagement to build an equitable world, to develop this toolkit.

Dominant narratives in community development play a significant role in shaping policies, funding decisions, and resource allocation. To create and implement equitable and anti-racist community development practices, it is essential to critically analyze and challenge these narratives by identifying and deconstructing their underlying biases, assumptions, and stereotypes. By actively engaging in developing anti-racist narrative strategies, community development practitioners can reshape the discourse around racial equity, amplify community-driven efforts that exemplify anti-racist community development practices, and dismantle structures that perpetuate racism.

Download the toolkit here: https://thepeoplespractice.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/11/CommunityDevelopmentNarrativeStrategyToolkit-1.pdf