Fluency w/ Dr. Durell Cooper

Episode 9 feat. Piper Anderson

September 23, 2021 Dr. Durell Cooper Season 1 Episode 9
Fluency w/ Dr. Durell Cooper
Episode 9 feat. Piper Anderson
Show Notes

In episode 9 Dr. Durell Cooper connects with Piper Anderson to discuss leadership, entrepreneurship, and accountability. Piper Anderson is a storyteller, coach, master facilitator, and Founder of Create Forward, a social impact firm delivering experiences that advance equity and justice. In spring 2016, Anderson was awarded a TED Residency to develop an innovative storytelling project called Mass Story Lab. Mass Story Lab has traveled to more than thirteen U.S cities making the stories of people impacted by incarceration an instrument of justice. In her TED Talk, "Can Stories Create Justice?” she challenges us to throw out punitive notions of justice and imagine a justice system that builds and restores humanity. In 2018 she co-founded the Rikers Public Memory Project, an oral history project documenting the legacy of Rikers Island through the narratives of generations of New Yorkers who have experience with the penal colony. 


Best known for her masterful facilitation, she is in high demand nationally for her training, speaking, and consulting with institutions on how to make workplaces and communities more inclusive and equitable.  With growing urgency within our culture on how to engage in conversations about race and power, FastCompany turned to Anderson for her best strategies on how to facilitate difficult conversations. 


Piper Anderson is a Professor at NYU’s Gallatin School and a founding member of the advisory board and faculty of NYU’s Prison Education Program. She has guest lectured at universities across the country including Harvard Law, Columbia University, Georgetown, and the New School. She is a New School Writing Democracy Fellow,  a Culture Push Fellow for Utopian Practice, and a Civic Hall Organizer in Residence, TED Resident, Aspen Ideas Scholar, and the Laundromat Project’s first Radical Imagination Fellow. Piper has dedicated her life to providing leaders with the generative spaces and tools they need to build thriving communities and organizations.



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