As Co-Founder of Caring Across Generations and President of the National Domestic Workers Alliance, Ai-jen Poo has spent decades working at the intersection of policy and culture — because she knows you can't change one without the other.

A MacArthur Fellow, Time 100 honoree, and author of The Age of Dignity, she's now launching a million-care-conversations campaign and a new production label, Give Not Take Media, to get care stories into film and television at scale. 🩵

In this episode, you'll hear:

Why culture change has to come before policy change — and what that sequencing means for your organization's communications strategy
How Caring Across Generations scaled their story strategy, and what it can teach any org about how media scales mission
How to plug into the 1 Million Care Conversations campaign right now

You'll walk away understanding why story isn't just a communications tool, it's the strategy that shifts culture, changes policy, and moves people to act.

Episode Highlights:

Ai-jen's grandfather and the personal roots of Caring Across Generations (2:09)
Changing policy and culture — why you can't do one without the other (6:09)
Care as infrastructure: the framing that changes the conversation (8:22)
Why emotional truth drives behavior more than facts (10:35)
Give Not Take Media and the film Take Me Home at Tribeca (13:21)
1 Million Care Conversations campaign — how to get involved (16:01)
A story of generosity: the donor who honored her nanny (18:07)
One Good Thing: reach out to a caregiver in your life (20:19)

Episode Show Notes: www.weareforgood.com/episode/716

Series Hub: https://www.weareforgood.com/hopegap

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716. Stories to Fill the Hope Gap: How Story Becomes the Strategy to Shift Culture - Ai-jen Poo, Caring Across Generations

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716. Stories to Fill the Hope Gap: How Story Becomes the Strategy to Shift Culture - Ai-jen Poo, Caring Across Generations