The Creatives

Talent for Justice

• 1. Life, Liberty and the Pursuit of Immigration Detention
• 2. Nobody Goes It Alone: Reframing the Poverty Discussion
• 3. No Paid Sick Days? Corporate Cents vs. Common Sense
• 4. The Myth of Representative Democracy
• 5. The Abuse of Solitary Confinement
• 6. The Value of a Big Mac and a Living Wage
• 7. Homelessness, Not Hopelessness
• 8. Both Sides of Gun Violence
• 9. Emergent Stories: Rally Hackers Around Your Idea

Over 200 creatives applied to participate at Re³ StoryHack and join us in our experiment for persuasive justice-based storytelling. About 100 creatives were selected and matched with the stories they felt most passionate about. The caliber of talent, range of experience skills and passion for meaningful storytelling among you was truly mind-blowing. We had Emmy-winning filmmakers, top developers and designers, students from Parsons, SVA, NYU and Yale and brilliant people from major organizations like the New York Times, Google, NBC News, Wall Street Journal, Fast Company, DesigNYC and Bloomberg, who all dedicated their weekends to crafting these important stories!

Here are the teams organized by story. ☆ = team captain.

The Stories

1. Life, Liberty and the Pursuit of Immigration Detention

Team A: End the Quota

• ☆ Annie Escobar / Filmmaker / Awake Storytelling / @annieescobar / Website
• Meng Shui / Creative Director / Emense @Alowercasem / Website
• Pauline Zalkin / Photographer / @FineasMedia / Website
• Phil Kaye / Poet / Project VOICE / Website
• Sarah Keane / Designer / Create digital / @sarah_keane / Website
• Tennessee Watson / Website

Team B: Text and Found

• Alexander Fringes / Lead front-end developer / The Atavist / @alexfringes / Website
• Ariel Marcus / Insights Analyst / @arielmarcus / Website
• Ingrid Burrington / Designer / @lifewinning / Website
• James Elkins / Software Engineer / Amicus / Website
• Sean Softcheck / Data Scientist / Website
• ☆ Volkan Unsal / Developer / @picardo / Website
• Yinan "Eva" Song / Designer & BA Candidate in Art & Political Science / Yale / @yesong91 / Website

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2. Nobody Goes It Alone: Reframing the Poverty Discussion

Team A: Nobody Goes It Alone

• Jeff Jones / Manager Marketing and Production / CSS / @Jeff_Jones / Website
• Jeremy Peterson / Visual & Interaction Designer / Freelance Design / Parsons MFADT Alumni / Website
• ☆ Sarah-Marie Hopf / Chief Storyteller / Ashoka Changemakers / Website
• William Zoe FitzGerald / Video Artist / Fatblood / @FatBlood / Website

Team B: GIFs for Good

• Beth Wernet / Designer / SVA Interaction Design / @bethwernet / Website
• Cathy Lee / Designer / FaithStreet / @optimisticlee / Website
• Dorothy Howard / Wikipedian-in-Residence and Open Data Fellow / Metropolitan New York Library Council / @DorothyR_Howard / Website
• Gabrielle Patacsil / MFA Design+Technology Student / Parsons / @Garada / Website
• Josh Goldstein / Attorney & Illustrator / Website
• ☆ Joshua Rosenau / Staff Reporter / Remapping Debate / @joshuarosenau / Website

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3. No Paid Sick Days? Corporate Cents vs. Common Sense

Team A: #GetWellFL

• Annalisa Merelli / Features Editor / Narratively / @missanabeem / Website
• Jonathan Jacobs / Lead Social Strategist / Partner / Digital Natives Group / @JonEJacobs / Website
• Justin MacNair / Technology Experience / co:collective / @justinmacnair / Website
• Mira Rojanasakul / Designer / @rjnskl / Website
• ☆ Ruchika Muchhala / Documentary Filmmaker / Third Kulture Media / @capricho_ruch / Website

Team B: Real Burger

• Erin Greenawald / Editor / The Muse / @erinaceously / Website
• ☆ Joel Witten / Business Intellignece / Squarespace / Website
• Keisha Manning / Digital Resources Project Manager / In Transition / @digitalhop07 / Website
• Lana Voynova / UX Designer / Sapient / @lanamaniac / Website
• Niral Parekh / Creative Amalgamist / Website

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4. The Myth of Representative Democracy

Team A: You Are Home

• Ari Finard / Storytelling Consultant / @Arzz_Finzz / Website
• ☆ Brian Stoner / Co-Founder / Instinct / @bsstoner / Website
• Bugra Akyildiz / Algorithms Engineer / dMetrics / @bugraa / Website
• Eric Fensterheim / Designer / Hyperakt / Website
• Franc Camps-Febrer / Data Storyteller / @francamps / Website
• Justin Charles / MFA Candidate / Parsons Design & Technology / @justincharles / Website

Team B: Run For Us

• Andrew Freedman / Senior Science Writer / Climate Central / @afreedma / Website
• Anthony Ford / Law Student / Cardozo Law School / @anthford / Website
• Hazel Marie Bala / Creative Director / @SuperSwank2 / Website
• ☆ Jeremy Redleaf / Head Honcho, Brackets Creative / @TheLeafisRed / Website
• Leslie Shapiro / Interactive Designer / @lizzos / Website
• Zak Greene / Designer & Developer / C&G Partners / @zearl / Website

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5. The Abuse of Solitary Confinement

Team A: 15 Days

• Abigail Ronck / Business Development / Atavist / @aeronck / Website
• Diana Diroy / Video Producer/ Filmmaker / EdLab / @ddiroy / Website
• Michelle Brook / Art Director / @imquotingyou / Website
• Niberca Polo / Adjunct Professor & MA Design Studies Candidate at Parsons + Design Consultant / Myellow Boots Studio / Website
• ☆ Rachel Crawford / Acting Director / desigNYC / @rbcinnyc / Website
• Sarah Henry / Research Analyst/Student / SVA MFA Interaction Design / @srhhnry / Website

Team B: Deformed Not Reformed

• Adam Pearce / Data Interaction Developer / Quovo / @adamrpearce / Website
• Hanna Yoon / Designer / MFA Interaction / Website
• ☆ Michael Keller / Interactive Multimedia Reporter / Al Jazeera / @mhkeller / Website
• Michael Thompson / Founder / Accelerator Information Studios / @AcceleratorMT / Website
• Sue Apfelbaum / Writer & Editor / @sueapfe / Website
• Tristan Aubert / Consultant - Data Scientist / Deloitte Consulting / Website

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6. The Value of a Big Mac and a Living Wage

Team A: Wage Island

• Ana Schwartz / PhD Candidate / University of Pennsylvania / @schwartz_ana / Website
• Derrick Schultz / Atavist Books / Digital Design and Production Manager / @dvsch / Website
• Madhav Kumar / Data Scientist / Website
• Pepin Gelardi / Industrial Designer / Tomorrow Lab / Website
• ☆ Senongo Akpem / Illustrator/Designer / Pixel Fable / @senongo/ Website
• Ekene Ijeoma / Designer/Developer / EkeneIjeoma / @ekeneijeoma/ Website

Team B: Half is Not Enough

• Corinne Colgan / Producer / BRIC / @Cocolgan / Website
• ☆ Kitty Overton / Senior Strategic Content Producer / Fenton Communications / @KittyOverton / Website
• Laura Hadden / Documentary Media Artist / @alauraborealis / Website
• Shiwon Jang / Motion Graphic Designer / Parsons the New School for Design / @aj_0228 / Website

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7. Homelessness, Not Hopelessness

Team A: From Homeless to Houseless

• Cole Nielsen / Creative Director / Cole Nielsen Design / @colenielsen / Website
• Crystal Bahena / Fashion Designer / Website
• Daniel Greenfeld / Illustrator / @campoverdi / Website
• Marisa Wong / Multimedia Producer / @mwongmedia / Website
• Michele Hoos / Digital Strategist / CUMC / @michelehoos / Website
• ☆ Rachel Digerness / Designer & Animator / Trollbäck+Company / @yooandme / Website

Team B: $2,700 a Month

• Elizabeth Cutrone / Psychology graduate student & dreamer of dreams / NYU / @_elizabethkate / Website
• Jeremy Scott Diamond / Prototyper & Interaction Designer / Bloomberg Visual Data / @jrmyscttdmnd / Website
• Jess Oswald / Senior Designer / BBMG / Website
• Jessica Leber / Assistant Editor / Co.Exist / Fast Company @jessleber / Website
• ☆ Tam Le / Client Associate / Landor Associates / @Tam_Le / Website

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8. Both Sides of Gun Violence

Team A: Bullet Points

• Aaron Hill / Research Associate / MDRC / @Research4Truth / Website
• Babar Suleman / Visual Storyteller / @B_Su / Website
• Cornelis Plattel / Motion Designer / Maker / B-Reel / @keesplattel / Website
• ☆ David Yanofsky / Data, Graphic, Interactive, Print Reporter / Quartz / @yan0 / Website
• Jenny Goldstick / Infographics Designer & Illustrator / SVA MFA Visual Narrative / @jennyGstick / Website
• Julie Salzman / Junior Designer / Deep Focus / Website

Team B: Every Shooting Is A Mass Shooting

• Amanda Sepanski / MFA Candidate / Communications Design / Pratt Institute / @amandasepanski / Website
• Chris Henrick / Cartographer / Chris Henrick Cartography / @chrislhenrick / Website
• Jennifer Galvin / Strategist, Storyteller & Entrepreneur / Website
• ☆ Jihii Jolly / Associate Producer / Future Journalism Project / @jihiitea / Website
• Steven Little / Manager / Windmill Studios / @_stevenlittle_ / Website
• Stuart Rogers / Partner / Rogers Eckersley Design / Website

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9. Emergent Stories: Rally Hackers Around Your Idea

Team A: Back To The Shutdown

• Brian Clark / Founder/CEO, GMD Studios / @gmdclark / Website
• Brian Abelson / Knight-Mozilla OpenNews Fellow / New York Times / Website
• John Suozzi / Podcaster / Kickstarter & The Seed X / @JSuozzi42 Website
• Clarisa Diaz / Web Interactive Designer & Developer / @Clarii_D / Website
• Cosmo Fujiyama / NYU GovLab Academy Fellow / @COSMOFUJIYAMA / Website
• Yan Liang Sim / Strategy Analyst / Keystone Strategy / @simyanliang/ Website

Team B: Online Identity

• Ai Vuong / MPA Public & Non Profit Management Candidate / Wr / @thuyaiv / Website
• Larissa Green / Junior Copywriter / Edelman Digital / @FRO__real / Website
• Heather Murphy / Web Editor - Foreign Desk / The New York Times / @heathertal / Website

Team C: Mindfulness

• Mia Therese Jamili / Project Manager / Digital Strategist / and Social In / @miajamili / Website
• Omar Canosa / Wordsmith & Psychiatrist / Website
• Alina Landry Rancier / Multimedia Creator, AMALA Studio / @amalamucho / Website
• Betty Quinn / Student / Parsons MFA Design + Tech / @Onenumber31 / Website

Others

• Carlos Medina / Applied Mathematician / NCE / @treeofcodes / Website
• Erika Grijalva / Interaction Designer / @baconegg / Website
• Hai Jung Kim / @pixelr8r / Website
• Jia Jung / Writer & Editor / @Jia_H_Jung / Website
• ☆ Justin Kosslyn / Product Manager / Google Ideas / Website

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