Monti holds multiple jobs in several spaces of her work. As a full-time Digital Coordinator of Grassroots Leadership, an abolitionist organization focused on uplifting communities throughout Texas to abolish for-profit private prisons, jails, and detention centers.
Her work is concentrated on community storytelling for the digital community. Most of the organization’s members or people in the communities are taking back the narrative through storytelling and sharing powerful narratives of formerly incarcerated people and the crimmigration legal system. She has experience working in local politics as an organizer, but it all started by donating her time to design for local campaigns.
Working throughout the State of Missouri to find candidates with outdated imagery, content, and marketing on billboards inspired her to support them. Providing content to candidates that needed political designs in their messaging. Collaborating with traditional patterns but developing marketing that centers on the community is the inspiration that caught on to some candidates.
As the digital community grows and expands, it’s essential to support intentional visual storytelling, branding, and marketing for communities to begin healing and ensuring Black and brown folx are leading the narratives.
For more information, you can reach her at info@montihill.com or have fun on social media IG @monti.hill.
It’s an opportunity to explore different ways that marketing and branding can be learned by anyone interested in being more intentional about marketing and connecting with the community by implementing more strategies and designs that support the BIPOC community.
