Join Level Forward Co-Founder and CEO Adrienne Becker, AB '91 and WashU Parent, in an exploration of narrative power in 2020. With radical transformation at hand, storytellers and their narratives are shaping so much of how we see change, and on many levels: as individuals, as families, as communities and as a country. Adrienne has had the privilege of working closely with some of the incredible storytellers on the front lines of narrative transformation and she will share thoughts with the WashU community on the structural, cultural, policy and human forces pushing us all into new terrain. She will focus on several challenging works and their talented leveling storytellers including Jeremy O. Harris, Kitty Green and Heidi Schreck. Featured projects, clips and conversations with these changemakers will include Crip Camp, Slave Play, The Assistant and What The Constitution Means To Me. In advance of this session, please feel free to watch Crip Camp on Netflix or YouTube, watch The Assistant on Hulu, or read Slave Play. Constitution will be available on Amazon on October 16, just three days after this discussion. You can watch the trailer here.
Adrienne Becker is CEO and co-founder of Level Forward, an ecosystem of storytellers, business people, and social change organizers focused on expanding the opportunity and influence of creative excellence in pursuit of economic transformation.
In their first three years, the company Adrienne founded along with partners including Abigail E. Disney, was nominated for 11 Tony Awards (What The Constitution Means To Me, Oklahoma!), produced the feature film The Assistant, the Broadway play Slave Play, the short film series Shatterbox, and has invested more than $20 million to produce a diverse portfolio of feature film, television, live and digital entertainment and technology—all focused on elevating new voices.
Adrienne was previously an entrepreneur-in-residence at Creative Artists Agency, CEO of DailyCandy, Inc., and SVP at both The Nielsen Company and InterActive Corp. Her big break, however, took place on an airport tarmac in Philadelphia, as a “rope line holder” for then Governor Bill Clinton, and led to positions as a campaign press secretary and a special assistant to Labor Secretary Robert Reich.
Ms. Becker has an M.A. from the Annenberg School, University of Pennsylvania, and a B.A. with Pi Sigma Alpha honors for political science from Washington University in St. Louis. She’s a board member of Story Pirates, The Labz, and Killer Content, where she was a co-founder and CEO.
You can read a recent interview with Adrienne here, published by the Criterion Institute.
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