Dignity First: Ethical Storytelling That Shifts Power on 10/23 with Amina Mohamed
Ethical storytelling means creating stories with people, not about them—centering consent, context, and shared benefit. In this one-hour session on October 23rd, hosted by Amina Mohamed, we’ll keep it practical: a simple consent workflow you can use tomorrow, a dignity-first checklist for images and captions, and a quick “share-back” practice so participants keep agency over how their story appears. We’ll do one live rewrite to show how a few language choices can shift power without losing punch. You’ll leave with a printable one-pager and one action to implement in seven days. This is built from Amina Mohamed’s work training women in Uganda and Tanzania and teaching nonprofits globally—light on theory, heavy on what actually works.
Please register for the upcoming event here: https://community.vitalvoices.org/c/vv-events/ethical-storytelling. We hope to see you there!
Learn More about Amina Mohamed:
Amina Mohamed has had a lifelong passion for photography. For fifteen years she worked in film and television as a producer and production manager on feature films and documentaries. In 2018, she founded Cameras For Girls to teach photography, ethical storytelling, and business skills with a year-long, four-phase curriculum. The program provides each participant with a camera to keep and is designed for young women across Africa who are pursuing journalism and photography careers, but face gender-based barriers to paid work in male-dominated media. Since 2018, Amina has led Cameras For Girls as a Canadian charity that has trained 64 young women in Uganda and 25 in Tanzania, pairing skills development with practical pathways to paid roles in media, NGOs, and communications. She has also offered free online training across Africa, creating space for women to develop and share their own stories. Beyond program delivery, Amina is a consistent advocate for ethical storytelling—centered on consent, dignity, accuracy, and community-led narratives.
Thank you,
Penda