From Incarceration to Innovation: Designing Solutions to Poverty with Lived Experience

This interactive Skills Lab uses documentary storytelling as a catalyst for action. Through curated clips from Kiana’s Mission, participants will engage with the lived experience of wrongful incarceration, civil rights injustice, and systemic poverty in the U.S. Guided by Kiana Calloway and Larry Reed, attendees will apply the Poverty Stoplight/Thrive Lights tool, used in 60 countries, to map multidimensional poverty and co-design solutions. This session transforms story into strategy, equipping participants with a practical framework to center lived experience and drive systems change in their own work.