Change the narrative.

Speak Wild collaborates to amplify advocacy and direct action, through creative storytelling, by and for targeted communities.

We creatively raise awareness, build community, drive donations towards resources, and engage towards healing, thriving, and inspiring each other together.

Speak Wild encourages authentic narratives that lead to meaningful social change via storytelling, poetry, immersive art experiences, performance, and film.

Our creative projects have partnered with targeted communities to welcome Muslim immigrants at SFO during the Muslim ban, covered rent and medical care for Syrian refugee families via creative advocacy at the Teen Vogue Conference, installed a Healing Room of poetry at the Alena Museum of African Diaspora in Oakland, CA, launched content celebrating and driving funds to Los Angeles underserved youth’s social impact ideas with the support of Virgin Group’s Richard Branson, and more.

Through media, creative workshops, performances, advocacy, and collaboration, Speak Wild aims to embolden creativity towards a safer, more equitable and socially just world.

Founder Anna Goodman Herrick is an author, filmmaker, and performer known for her writing around mental health and human rights, towards collective liberation, and for creating impactful content for television, brands, and social change. She has worked with major networks and platforms like MTV, VH1, Oprah Winfrey Network, Sundance Channel, ABC Family, Sony, and Teen Vogue. As an author and public speaker, she has shared her work at the Emily Dickinson Museum, Patagonia, and at the El Paso border with One Billion Rising.