Community Portraits
thematic voices & visions
Community Portraits: Grassroots Collaborations
We believe in the power of partnerships to amplify work that advances our world. Community Portraits are thematic stories based on community voices and visions. Produced a few times a year, these special collaborations are partially subsidized by EmVision and by the organization, its partners, and/or grant funding.
UMass Boston // Harbor Islands (Living with the Urban Ocean) - 2024
With our cofounders being alumni, it was a pleasure partnering with UMass Boston’s Sustainable Solutions Lab to showcase the Boston Harbor and Harbor Islands, and how students are exploring and protecting these natural resources.
Thomas J. Ruffen Community Leadership Fund - 2023
It was an honor for us to produce a Community Portrait story in partnership with our repeat clients Union Capital and The Boston Foundation on the vision of the late Thomas J. Ruffen, based on our archival interviews, as they launched the Thomas J. Ruffen Community Leadership Fund created in his legacy.
More Than a Vaccine: Storytelling to Build Medical Trust - 2022
We are honored to produce a video series on the roots of medical distrust in Black and brown communities through the lens of personal stories. Highlighting the voices of two patients of color and one white physician, this series aims to inspire broader conversations about distrust in the medical system among BIPOC communities and what health care providers can do.
These videos are part of an ongoing project, “More Than a Vaccine: Storytelling to Build Medical Trust,” funded by Boston University and led collaboratively by Everyday Boston, Boston Medical Center’s Department of Family Medicine, The B.L.A.C. Project, Transformational Prison Project, We Got Us, EmVision Productions, and MA Community Engagement Alliance (CEAL).
Afro-Latinx Front & Center: Showcasing Voices from Our Black Latinx Diaspora - 2021
Colorism has had - and still has - serious socioeconomic, educational, and political repercussions for Black Latinos (Afro-Latinos).
We partnered with Amplify Latinx, Cojuelos Productions, and Creative Collective LLC, along with community stakeholders on a virtual campaign featuring a series of vignettes and panel discussions, as they explore the topic of “Blackness” among Latinos.
This collaboration was funded in part by Essex County Community Foundation, Mass Development, and the Commonwealth of Massachusetts.
The Power of Community: Chelsea’s Response to COVID-19 - 2020
In April 2020, we created a fundraising video for the One Chelsea Fund to show how the Chelsea community fought against the COVID-19 crisis in their city, the epicenter of the virus in MA. In its May debut alone, the Fund raised over $1 million. Our proud partners include the City of Chelsea, GreenRoots, Inc., The Chelsea Collaborative, The Neighborhood Developers, United Way of Massachusetts Bay.
