Baltimore Social Innovation Journal, Fall 2016 Fall 2016 | Seite 15

NA ME: Michelle Antoinette Nelson
INNOVATI ON : Using social media to encourage

healthy life choices, personal fitness and selfconfidence.

A G E: 35
HO ME: Reservoir Hill
O CCUPATI ON: Poet, Spoken Word Performer,

running Brown and Healthy

HO BBI ES: Working out, watching movies, attending

live performance events

FU N FACT: Likes writing and performing erotic

poetry.

T W I TTER HAN DLE: @brownandhealthy

sessions that not only teach strategies for
staying physically active and emotionally
healthy, but that also include a digital
component. Kids will learn, for example, how
to make videos that tell their stories, how to
create memes that reflect their lives, how to
write a meaningful tweet.
“These are things that kids are already
doing; they’re comfortable in the digital
world. But I want them to learn how to
build a narrative. To be brave in identifying
themselves. We’re trying to figure out how
to navigate this world where racism still
exists. ‘Brown and Healthy’ is a declarative
statement. It says, ‘I am here’.”
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