C Meranda Flachs-Surmanek, WhyWOW Studio

As a narrative strategist, urban planner, and theatre-maker I work with people to share stories that must get told. With Diksha Pilania, I lead WhyWOW Studio, a creative consulting practice developing environments for people and organizations to exercise our civic imagination.

With Monuments Across Appalachian Virginia, I work with grassroots organizers across nine communities to develop creative projects that bring neighbors together to dream, to democratize their history, and to uplift, commemorate, or rehabilitate cultural practices and stories targeted by policies of genocide and erasure.

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