Your Hero’s Journey
PAST EVENT: October 27, 2021, - 5:30 pm PT / 8:30 pm ET
in Partnership with Women Who Code
A Free Online Workshop Empowering Women and Non-binary Professionals to Discover and Share Their Hero’s Journey Through the Basics of Animated Film Storytelling.
Diversity studies show that less than 25% of employees at the top tech companies identify as women or non-binary and are less likely than men to stay in their roles.
Check out this video snippet of our last WIN Workshop: Your Hero’s Journey with WINstructor Eun Bi Chang and featured story muse Alyssia Jackson.
We created this WIN Workshop: Your Hero’s Journey in collaboration with animated filmmaker Eun Bi Chang. Participants will be encouraged to submit their stories to be considered for production into an animated narrative film directed by Eun Bi.
Participants will gain:
Understanding of the “Hero’s Journey” — a common story template with a protagonist who goes on an adventure where they face a decisive crisis and comes home transformed
Introduction to animated filmmaking
Expert guidance to help you turn your life experience into a compelling narrative
Instruction on how to communicate your story in whatever medium you feel is best: visual, auditory, written, or verbal
Opportunity to bring your story to a bigger audience
WINstructor: Eun Bi Chang
Eun Bi majored in Animation and VFX at the Academy of Art University in San Francisco. She has worked as a 2D character animator, storyboard artist, teacher, and film producer. Recently, she produced and directed the short film, “Paper City” (Madina Papel) which centers on the topic of honor-based violence that happens towards women in the Middle East. Eun Bi has always been an immigrant, an outsider. Her experiences, living in different places such as South Korea, New Zealand, and the U.S., strongly shaped how she views the world and influenced the themes of her work.
Story Muse: Rasha Hussein
Rasha is a Palestinian Software Engineer at Netflix, working on animation artist tools. She previously worked at Quora and Udacity. She made the online educational platform accessible in Arabic as part of the One Million Arab Coders initiative led by Dubai. Rasha also co-founded a co-working space in the West Bank, Palestine, that hosted tech companies like Google, Microsoft, and investors from around the Arab world. There, she organized tech events and startup weekends that facilitated startup thinking among young Palestinians. When she was a student at Birzeit University, she volunteered to tour Palestinian schools and teach kids how to use the OLPC (One Laptop Per Child) laptop to learn math, reading, and coding basics.
Thank You to Our Partner
Autodesk
Programs like WIN Workshop: Your Hero’s Journey are possible because of the generosity of our partners like Autodesk. This video demo was created in the WeXL Media Lab and is presented during the workshop to women and non-binary professionals. Through our community partnerships, this story and workshop has a potential reach of over 20,000 participants.