Share your story, to change the story." Felicia T Perez
Born and raised in Southern California, Felicia T Perez is an educator, author, public speaker and audio storytelling producer. She most recently produced the "Health and Climate Solutions Oral Storytelling Project." She is the host and creator of the “Been There, Done That: Pandemic Podcast," and she is currently a Lecturer at the University of Nevada Reno in the Gender, Race and Identity Department.
Most recently Felicia served as the Innovation Director at the Center for Story-based Strategy (CSS), where she was also previously the Communications Director. Previous to that she was the Communications Director for GetEqual and was the Communication Strategist for United Workers Congress. READ MORE>> |
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"Learn to practice and practice to learn."
- Felicia Perez
- Felicia Perez
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Past Clients
Felicia brings decades of experience helping folks bridge the gap between learning new ideas and applying them.
What past clients have to say...
"The Institute for Sustainable Communities had the pleasure of working with Felicia to support the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation's Health and Climate Solutions program, which we serve as the National Program Office for. We were interested in the program grantees receiving an equity-centered narrative communications frame and applying that frame to record the story of their projects in an oral storytelling format. The resulting products were moving, poignant, high quality recorded stories of the work on the ground, told by the grantees. Felicia brought an incredible lens to this work and produced products that exceeded our expectations. The grantees had the opportunity to listen to each other's stories and it created a point of connection and unity to this program and commitment to further this work. Thank you!"
-- Sonia Joshi, Associate Director, U.S. Programs | Institute for Sustainable Communities (2021)
-- Sonia Joshi, Associate Director, U.S. Programs | Institute for Sustainable Communities (2021)
"At Hand in Hand, we hired Felicia to co-facilitate and develop the curriculum for a storytelling training for organizers and activists. Felicia brought extraordinary skill, creativity, humor, kindness, and consistency to our work together. Working on a tight deadline, she crafted a creative and engaging training tailored to our needs and vision, and tackled the challenge of developing a curriculum accessible to a very diverse set of participants. The training was a huge success, and participant feedback highlighted the impact of Felicia's fabulous, fun, and vulnerable facilitation. One participant, a community organizer with decades of experience, shared that they had been to countless trainings, but this one stood out as having some of the best and most visionary facilitation and instruction. I agree! We were unbelievably lucky to get to work with Felicia on this project and I'm excited to find opportunities to continue to work with her in the future."
-- Kayla Shore, Southern California Research Manager & Organizer | Hand in Hand (2021)
-- Kayla Shore, Southern California Research Manager & Organizer | Hand in Hand (2021)
"The Moving Forward Network (MFN) is a national network of over 50 member organizations that centers grassroots, frontline-community knowledge, expertise and engagement from communities across the US that bear the negative impacts of the global freight transportation system. Every year we come together from across the country for our Annual Convening. This year, travel restrictions because of Covid-19 meant that we were going to have to move our in-person convening to a virtual one. Felicia Perez provided the much needed support, coordination, and facilitation which made our virtual convening truly memorable and powerful. She brought together the technical needs while lifting up the narrative power of our membership. Felicia continued to support MFN by facilitating member-led skillshares. She worked to coordinate and facilitate these virtual presentations while supporting the outreach. These events were some of our best attended and we have been receiving only positive responses from our members. To see the clip from the convening and the amazing facilitation from Felicia visit:2021 Moving Forward Network Convening Recap "
- Candice Kim, Project Director | Moving Forward Network
- Candice Kim, Project Director | Moving Forward Network
