Liberation Stories w/ Marzena Zukowska and Shanelle Matthews

Marzena Zukowska (they/them) is an organizer, communications strategist, and the co-editor of Liberation Stories: Building Narrative Power for 21st Century Social Movements (aff) (New Press, 2025). For a decade, Marzena has developed narrative and organizing strategies for leading social and political movements in the United States, the UK, and Europe. They are the co-­founder and co-­director of POMOC, a UK-based immigrant rights organization that builds progressive power among Eastern Europeans. In previous roles, they served as the media director at the National Domestic Workers Alliance, a trustee at Migrants Organise and Migrant Democracy Project, and a leadership team member at the Radical Communicators Network. Marzena is a queer, nonbinary Polish immigrant who was born in Białystok, Poland, and grew up undocumented in Chicago, United States.

Shanelle Matthews is a movement communications strategist and founder of the Radical Communicators Network. She co-edited Liberation Stories: Building Narrative Power for 21st-Century Social Movements and leads narrative strategy for coalitions, including M4BL and the Rising Majority. Shanelle teaches narrative power and political communication at City College of New York and across movement spaces globally.