LeeAnn C. Morrissette (RYT 200) is a Black southern, multidisciplinary storyteller and cultural strategist based on unceded Cusabo land (Charleston, SC). She has created for Oxford American, the Cornucopia Institute, Good Food Jobs, Nonprofit Quarterly, the Stacey Abrams for Governor Campaign, Blavity, Black Girl In Om, Honey Pot Co, and most recently the National Black Food & Justice Alliance serving as the Director of Communications and Culture.

Her work is a commitment to creating pathways through story and practice for Black people to reclaim for ourselves what it means to live well and free from the wounds of generational land-based trauma. She is currently in production of the short film, The Revolutionary Nature of Making which profiles an intergenerational collective of Black fiber artists and makers based in Georgia who are reimagining and redefining their relationship to the ritual of making.

LeeAnn is a mother to a vivacious 4 year-old and is currently working to rematriate her family’s heirs property on Wadmalaw, Is., South Carolina.