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ABOUT TEAM MEDIA 2070
This project is the result of more than a year of gathering, built on
Tauhid Chappell
the foundation of Juan González and Joseph Torres’ book News for All
Tauhid is a project manager for Free Press’ News Voices project, focusing
the People and Alicia Bell’s work infusing newsrooms with the spirit of
on the program’s Philadelphia initiative to reimagine how the city’s local
community organizing via Free Press’ #NewsVoices project.
newsrooms approach their coverage of crime, violence and the criminal
justice and carceral systems. An eight-year veteran of the media industry,
Joseph Torres
he most recently worked as a social-media editor at The Washington Post
Joseph advocates in Washington to ensure that our nation’s media policies
before joining The Philadelphia Inquirer as an engagement editor. Tauhid
serve the public interest and builds coalitions to broaden the movement’s
is also an executive board member of the Philadelphia Association of
base. Joseph writes frequently on media and internet issues and is the
Black Journalists (PABJ), the first and oldest association of Black journalists
coauthor of the New York Times bestseller News for All the People: The
in the country and founding chapter of the National Association of Black
Epic Story of Race and the American Media. He is the 2015 recipient of
Journalists.
the Everett C. Parker Award, which recognizes an individual whose work
embodies the principles and values of the public interest. Before joining
Diamond Hardiman
Free Press, Joseph worked as deputy director of the National Association
Diamond works as a manager for Free Press’ News Voices: Colorado
of Hispanic Journalists. Born and raised in New York City, Joseph is Puerto
project in collaboration with community members to envision a
Rican.
transformative local news. She aims to participate in the creation of
a world where freedom is noncontingent — but rather, an inevitable
Alicia Bell
necessity. In service of this vision she has worked as a tenants’ rights
A child of ancestors from Mississippi and the Carolinas, Alicia works at
advocate and bail abolitionist in St. Louis and as an advocate for people
the intersections of afrofuturist imagination, journalism, land, food and
sentenced to execution by the state in Jackson, Mississippi. Diamond
all the spaces in between. With Free Press, they organize communities
earned a B.A. in African American studies and political science from Saint
around information equity and power sharing in an effort to transform the
Louis University. In her free time, she enjoys pondering womanist and
future of journalism to one that’s more community rooted. Alicia learned
liberation theology, listening to Megan Thee Stallion and admiring beauty
community building and changemaking through electoral organizing in
wherever it appears.
North Carolina; parent, student and youth organizing in New York; and
housing, health and police-accountability organizing in Oakland. Outside
Christina Pierce
of work, Alicia finds joy in raising their three niblings, laughing with their
Raised in the Midwest by two Carolinians, Christina coordinates all things
family, throwing down with their gardening collective, Angelou House, and
operations, specifically IT, database management and special projects.
spending time with big bodies of nature.
Before joining Free Press, Christina served as an AmeriCorps member
with City Year at a high school in D.C. Christina supports logistics in several
Collette Watson
aspects of her life, including local Black-owned restaurant events and
Collette is a native of Gullah country, South Carolina, who has worked with
church. Outside of work, Christina can be found long-distance running,
Black Alliance for Just Immigration (BAJI) and now Free Press to channel
imagining new apps and learning the ukulele.
the power of creative and cultural arts for Black liberation. Collette’s
practice is informed by over a decade as an award-winning indie soul
musician and communications strategist. She is a proud member of Delta
Sigma Theta Sorority and graduate of Howard University, and her favorite
pastimes are nature walks with the hubster, red rice-eating and dancing it
out to a fonky beat.