Community and advocacy

Creativity with purpose

Communication and community work across LGBTQ+ health, youth initiatives and immigrant storytelling.

The task

Make sensitive information accessible and useful while creating room for people’s own voices.

My role

Print, web and social content; outreach; youth initiatives and partner communication; public immigrant storytelling.

Immigrant advocacy / symbolic adaptation of my photograph

The work

How it came together.

LGBTQ+ health and outreach

At Vstrecha, a Global Fund partner, created and maintained web and print communication, annual reports and informational materials, alongside direct community outreach. The outreach role ran from June 2007 to December 2014.

Youth initiatives

Supported youth initiatives, media, mentoring and volunteer work in BELAU / UNICEF contexts.

Immigrant storytelling

Created public communication around immigration, asylum and adaptation; shared a personal LGBTQ+ asylee story with Human Rights First and other publishers. Human Rights First supported the public storytelling.

Result / Project status

A body of practical communication and advocacy spanning community health, youth support and public immigrant storytelling.

Vstrecha / Global Fund, BELAU / UNICEF and Human Rights First are separate activity contexts. Images include illustrative and symbolic portfolio adaptations.

Selected artifacts

A closer look.

LGBTQ+ health and outreach / illustrative portfolio image

Youth initiatives / illustrative portfolio image

Selected portfolio material: original creative work alongside labeled portfolio adaptations and format studies.

More ideas. More ways to make them real.

Explore all work ↗Portfolio PDF ↓