Anika Fassia

Anika is the Co-Founder and Co-Executive Director of We Make the Future (WMTF). WMTF launched in early 2021 to combine strategic communications and coalition building to implement race forward narratives that motivate our base and persuade the middle for wins that allow all our communities to thrive. Anika leads WMTF’s strategic direction and engagements in partnership with researchers, content creators, labor and community based organizations to bridge narrative and practice through creative implementation. Anika also facilitates workshops and develops curriculum to support organizations in infusing empirically backed and race forward frameworks across state-based campaigns. Prior to co-founding WMTF, Anika was the Outreach and Training Director of Race Class Narrative Action where she led partnerships with organizations spanning seven Midwestern states. Prior to joining Race Class Narrative Action, she managed the inception of the Race Class Narrative with creators, Anat Shenker-Osorio, Ian Haney López and Heather McGhee at Demos.