The Civic Imagination Project

In Spring and Summer 2016, Civic Paths collaborated with Fusion's Rise Up Be Heard Fellows to explore how the civic imagination could inform these activists' and journalists' approaches to social change...

At the 2016 Salzburg Academy on Media and Global Change, three young women joined forces to take elements from three very different stories that had been inspirational to them individually and create something completely new collectively. Their new story was called “Em/Power Love” and envisioned the main character (and author) of Eat Pray Love, Liz Gilbert, traveling to Brazil and falling in love with famed photographer Sebastiao Salgado. Together, Liz and Sebastiao travel Brazil documenting injustice until a mysterious comet appears and delivers an extraterrestrial named Em into their midst...