First Friday Webinar: Telling Our Clients' Stories - Part Two: Effective Story Telling in the Media

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Join us for the second of our two part series on “Telling Our Clients' Stories - Effective Story Telling.” In the second part of the two-part series, we will focus on telling our clients' stories to the public and the media – using them as advocacy tools to work for systemic changes. Often, we need to sell the media and the general public on the problems our clients face to change the tide of public opinion about an issue and build momentum for policy change. Join us as our presenter, Rana Elmir, Deputy Director of the ACLU of Michigan, discuss with us effective ways to tell our clients' stories to the public, the media and even legislators.

Rana Elmir, Deputy Director, ACLU of Michigan. Rana joined the ACLU of Michigan in 2006 as the Communications Director and was named Deputy Director in 2013. Rana is a member of the ACLU of Michigan's leadership team and plays a key role in shaping the future of the ACLU-MI and increasing the effectiveness and shaping the ACLU of Michigan's public policy campaigns. In addition, she continues her responsibilities to increase understanding and appreciation of the Bill of Rights and the ACLU's mission through digital and traditional media. Rana is a graduate of Wayne State University's Journalism School and the Journalism Institute for Minorities. In 2004, she was a member of the North American Media Justice Delegation to the U.N. World Summit on the Information Society in Tunisia where she presented on the issue of empowering communities of color in the U.S. through media engagement.

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