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The work has always been bigger than me. ❤️

Grateful to build Mancala Collective while supporting the storytellers, organizers, and leaders creating real change.

Learn more at MancalaCollective.com 🔗
#mancalacollective #strategiccommunications #storytelling #socialimpact #blackleadership by @mancalasocial

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Your research deserves to be heard, understood, and protected.

Mancala Collective helps scholars and research centers turn complex work into powerful narratives that reach the people who can move it forward.

Our work includes:
• Turning research into public-facing messaging
• Op-ed development & media placement
• Media training for scholars & center leaders
• Stakeholder & policy communications
• Center communications strategy

Visit our website to learn how we can help you turn your ideas into messaging that reaches the people who need to hear it.

#AcademicResearch #HigherEd #ResearchCommunication #MancalaCollective by @mancalasocial

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Your work is changing the world. 🌎
But does the world know about it?

Movement leaders shouldn’t have to be their own communications director.

Mancala Collective helps make your work visible, clear, and powerful, from messaging and social media to media pitching and communications strategy.

You run the mission. We make sure the world knows about it.

#MancalaCollective #MovementLeaders #SocialChange #CommunicationsStrategy #narrativestrategy by @mancalasocial

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Jason Arday, the youngest Black Professor in the University of Cambridge’s history, died amidst a racist smear campaign accusing him of plagiarism. The claims were dismissed, but the media fueled the narrative anyway, leading to his demise.

This is not an isolated incident. Within our Black scholarly community, we are witnessing an uptick in baseless attacks on Black academics by white supremacist actors. When Black academics committed to research and scholarship aimed at bursting open the seams of racist systems find themselves under media pressure, the institutions they serve (the same ones who demand so much of them) often go silent, leaving them without the cover and protection they need.

It’s similar to the attacks we see on our movements, where challenges that carry no social, ethical, or legal weight, wage PR campaigns that swarm our leaders and communities with noise they simply can’t combat.

At Mancala Collective, we envision a world where Black scholars and movements are protected and their voices are heard.

Justice for Jason Arday.

#jaysonarday #academia #education #justice by @mancalasocial

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2 months ago

GRWM as I headed to celebrate one of my clients on one of the biggest days of her life. 🤍

Building Mancala Collective has never been just about communications—it’s about relationships. Over the years, I’ve had the privilege of partnering with scholars, movement leaders, nonprofits, and organizations whose work is changing communities. Somewhere along the way, many of those clients became friends.

Attending this wedding reminded me why I started this work in the first place: to build a communications firm that understands the heart behind mission-driven work and walks alongside the people leading it.

I’m incredibly grateful for every story we’ve been trusted to tell—and for moments like these that remind me this work is about so much more than campaigns.

Congratulations to a truly brilliant and deserving couple. 💛

#GRWM #WomenInBusiness #Entrepreneur #Communications #wedding by @mancalasocial

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20 years of FIERCE. 🔥

We partnered with FIERCE Advocates to build a communications campaign worthy of two decades of advocacy and organizing for LGBTQ+ youth of color.

Testimonial series. Campaign visuals. Media outreach. And a segment on ABC Bay Area to cap it off.

This is what community storytelling looks like in action.

Link in bio for the full case study. 🔗

#MancalaCollective #ClientWork #CommunityStorytelling #NarrativePower #LGBTQYouth by @mancalasocial

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I’m ready for my close-up. 🎬
At Mancala Collective, we work with leaders at movement organizations and research institutions and we keep seeing the same pattern.

You’ve got a bold vision. You’re under-resourced and stretched thin. You don’t have time to be the executive director AND manage communications. So you hire a consultant.

And before long? Even THAT starts to feel like one more thing to manage. You’re still coming up with every content idea. Still driving the strategy. Your consultant is just hitting send or building a pie-in-the-sky strategy and expecting you to execute.

WE SEE YOU.

That’s exactly why Mancala Collective exists. We add real capacity to your communications infrastructure so it’s one less thing on your plate, and you still feel proud of what the world sees.

You and your mission deserve better. DM us if this sounds like you. We’re always here to talk. 📩
#mancalacollective #StrategicCommunications #MovementOrgs #NarrativePower #blackcomms by @mancalasocial

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This Fourth of July, we’re proud to celebrate leaders who help shape important conversations.

Our client, Professor Justin Hansford, joined Democracy Now! to share his perspective as our nation marks 250 years since the signing of the Declaration of Independence.

Watch the full interview to learn more through the link in our bio.

#Mancala #America250 #FourthOfJuly #Leadership #DemocracyNow by @mancalasocial

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When political historian Deondra Rose, Ph.D. was ready to bring her book — The Power of Black Excellence: HBCUs and the Fight for American Democracy — to broader audiences, she needed a communications strategy that matched the depth of her research. 📚✊🏾
We partnered with Dr. Rose to take her scholarship from the academy to the public — through a multi-city book tour, media outreach, and a website redesign that matched the depth of her work.
Link in bio for the full case study. 🔗
#MancalaCollective #ClientWork #HBCUs #BlackExcellence #Booktour taken in Washington D. C. by @mancalasocial

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4 months ago

Happy Juneteenth community! Today we’re celebrating the bold leaders, thinkers, and creators that are a part of the village we call home.

For the past three years, we’ve brought together a strong collective of creatives and strategists who believe storytelling can shift the balance of power. The collective has supported campaigns and built capacity for organizations defending civil rights, organizing marginalized communities, and producing knowledge that makes movements stronger.

The work is growing and so are we! Interested in joining our network of consultants? Know someone who brings excellence to their craft and a commitment to supporting movements?

We’re looking for:

Graphic Design 🎨
Writing & Messaging ✍🏿
Social Media 📱
Comms Strategy 🧩
Web Design 💻️
Public Relations 📰

If that’s you, let’s talk!

Link in bio 🔗 by @mancalasocial

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Mancala Collective’s “Celebration of Black Voices” launch event and fireside chat was a celebration of not only Mancala Collective, but the importance of the Black Press and Black storytellers, like our Founder, Misha Cornelius Green and Washington Informer Managing Editor, Micha Green. This event highlighted why our work is so important.

When discussing the reasons for creating Mancala Collective, Misha said, “Communications is something that is really needed and yet deeply underresourced. There’s not a lot of Black representation… and I really wanted a different model.” Thus, Mancala Collective is grateful to do our part to ensure our clients receive culturally relevant communications strategies that ensure Black voices are heard and authentically expressed.

To learn more, click the link in bio to read the full Washington Informer article.

#MancalaCollective #BlackPress #BlackVoices #BlackMedia taken in The Guest House by @mancalasocial

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6 months ago

We are thrilled to announce that our Founder and Principal, Misha Cornelius Green, has become a member of the Institute for Public Relations Elevate (IPR Elevate).

IPR ELEVATE is a diverse and select membership community of 70+ upper mid-level to senior-level professionals who are catalysts for growth, change, and advancement.

Membership in IPR Elevate will allow Misha to learn alongside a powerful cohort of leaders shaping the future of PR. Exposure to this cohort allows Misha and Mancala Collective to deepen our public relations and communications expertise and strengthen our capacity to deliver more insightful, meaningful, strategic solutions to movement leaders, scholars, and institutions.

To learn more about our work, follow us and check out www.mancalacollective.com. by @mancalasocial

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