Katie Petitt
Katie Petitt, Founder & Executive Director
Katie re-envisions community-driven initiatives as a new basis for racial justice, global development, and peace-building. Currently, Katie handles events and arts/cultural organizing for Black Lives Matter DC. As a consultant, she focuses on strategic planning and organizational culture, event/retreat planning, social media, and storytelling. Previously Katie managed programs and the DC office of The Advocacy Project, including its Peace Fellowship Program which partnered with 14 grassroots organizations in 10 countries.
As a fellow at the Middlebury Institute of International Studies at Monterey Center for Conflict Studies, Katie conducted field research and storytelling project on water conflicts in Ethiopia and worked for over five years in refugee resettlement in three major U.S. cities.
Emmett Williams
Content Curator
After a decade in television, award-winning producer, writer, and multimedia artist Emmett Williams started Mission Man Media, a company that has produced dozens of inspiring and educational documentaries, web series, and short films around the world. He has told the story of grieving mothers who have lost their sons in Brazil, produced a web series about climate change in Africa, portrayed threatened fishing communities in Alaska, documented illegal logging in the Amazon, created a Black Lives Matter web series, been part of large scale art performances in Europe and filmed protests from Standing Rock to Washington, DC.