Video: The power of the personal voice in media advocacy
Wednesday, March 19, 2014Effective storytelling is an important way for advocates to bring media attention to important public health issues. As the Central California Regional Obesity Prevention Program’s Genoveva Islas points out in this talk as part of BMSG’s 20th anniversary series, if public health advocates don’t tell their own stories, someone else will, but from a different perspective. Along with CCROPP’s Brandie Banks-Bey, Islas shares three steps that advocates can take to get better at articulating the problems in their communities and what can be done to address them.