Advocacy Video Series: Part 1 

Transcript of "Advocacy Video Series - Part 1" produced by Rooted in Rights ALLEXA: Do you have a story to share but you don't know where to start? Hi, I'm Allexa from Rooted in Rights, and we tell disability stories by and for disabled people. I'm a White woman with brown hair, and I'm wearing yellow heart-shaped glasses. We're going to be sharing a series with you all, about how to make your own advocacy video. There's lots of different ways that you can share stories. You can share it in a podcast, you can write a letter to a legislator, but at Rooted and Rights, we mainly do it using video stories, so we want to share tips and tools with you all for how you can do that too. Storytelling can be a really effective advocacy tool because it allows you to connect your personal experience with larger systemic issues. For folks with disabilities like me and my team, oftentimes the stories told about us are wrong, and being able to share your own story is an opportunity to change the narrative. You are the expert of your own experience and your story is important. So if you want to know how to structure a story, how to script it, how to film it using your mobile phone, how to edit with some free editing tools, and how to make all of that content accessible, follow our series, and we're going to show you how. Check out our existing stories at RootedInRights.org /Storytellers, and follow us for the rest of the advocacy video series. End of transcript.