Communications Manager and Graphic Designer for Dissenters
At Dissenters, I had the pleasure of being the organization’s first full-time Communications staff member. In this role, I helped forge Dissenters’ visual identity, establish a narrative strategy, and create compelling, relevant, and meaningful graphics to engage our growing base of young people. This included training members on press, visual, and narrative strategy to empower them to tell their stories and build political power toward the future we deserve.
Graphic Design, Political Education, and Social Media for DC Ward 2 Mutual Aid
My first experience organizing was with Ward 2 Mutual Aid in Northwest DC. I was freshly out of my teens, fed up with the inaction of politicians around me, and beginning my formal politicization. Rain or shine, I would co-lead weekly Friday supply distribution with formerly unhoused folks at encampments around the Foggy Bottom, DuPont Circle, and Georgetown neighborhoods.
Seeing my neighbors be forced to endure poverty and housing insecurity just blocks away from the well-funded, affluent university I received a scholarship to attend, empowered me to mobilize other young people to organize with W2M. I led political education initiatives and grew our online presence to increase our monthly contributors and encourage more neighbors to become a part of the DC Mutual Aid Network.
Founder and Director of Education for The Black Knowledge Coalition
Exiting my third year of undergrad, I founded The Black Knowledge Coalition BKC. After organizing with DC Ward 2 Mutual Aid for a few months, I noticed the disparity in access to educational resources about abolition, mutual aid, anti-capitalism, and feminism. While students theorized about sociology and inequality in classrooms, our unhoused neighbors were living it two blocks away— yet the studies and books written about them were locked behind a paywall.
Founding BKC meant working to find our narrative strategy for uplifting our revolutionary ancestors’ teachings and stories. I designed our website, logo, and visual identity to convey the political power of collective education while nodding to the Pan-African tradition.
This is the core of BKC. Made of afro-descendant queer people and women, we encourage our communities’ politicization by making radical educational resources accessible to anyone.
Peyton’s Creations 