Facing Race: A National Conference 2022

Rinku Sen with Faron McLurkin and Sendolo Diaminah at Facing Race 2022

Two weeks ago, Narrative Initiative took our goodies to the Facing Race conference in Phoenix. The conference is sponsored by my former organization, Race Forward, so this was my first chance to see old friends in person since 2020. As always, this conference crowd is multi-everything kind, loving, joyful and determined. There’s no better place […]

Funding Narrative Change, An Assessment and Framework

In September 2022, the Convergence Partnership released the first-ever report to focus exclusively on the funding of narrative change, Funding Narrative Change, An Assessment and Framework. The new report was written by two leading experts in the field, Rinku Sen, executive director of Narrative Initiative, and Mik Moore, principal and founder of Moore + Associates. […]

Narrative Initiative

Rinku Sen is an expert on shifting narratives. In her role as the Executive Director of Narrative Initiative, she leads a cross-functional team that weaves the power of narrative with other social movement strategies to achieve long term equity and justice. Darren Walker, president of the Ford Foundation, a founding funder of Narrative Initiative, said. […]