Kwan Booth

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Kwan Booth is an award winning writer and media futurist who produces creative, digital and public projects that explore the relationship between communications, community, art and technology. A journalist with over 10 years of industry experience, Kwan is currently a Content Strategist at Facebook, and the cofounder of the award winning hyperlocal news site Oaklandlocal.com. His investigative and community reporting has won awards from The Society of Professional Journalists national organization and the Northern California Chapter. As a media consultant, speaker and trainer, Kwan has worked with a wide range of nonprofit and corporate clients, including the Knight Digital Media Center, the Online News Association, Netsquared, The National Conference on Media Reform, Public Radio International, J Lab, Paypal, Black Coalition on AIDS, and the International Journalism Festival in Perugia, Italy. He is the editor of Black Futurists Speak: an Anthology of New Black Writing and the producer of the Black Futurists Speaks literary series, which features some of the most exciting Black literary artists working today. His creative writing has been published in CHORUS, the “literary mixtape

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