Collette Watson

A musician, writer and communicator with over a decade of experience, Collette builds partnerships and imaginaries grounded in realizing justice, healing and liberation. She helps guide narrative change, community partnerships and strategic communications, working with artists, media-makers, creatives and advocates to shift power toward a just future media system. Before joining Free Press, Collette worked at Black Alliance for Just Immigration and with the J. Walter Thompson advertising company. A proud native of Gullah country, South Carolina, Collette is a graduate of Howard University's Cathy Hughes School of Communications and a co-creator of Media 2070.