about Media 2070
Media 2070 team photograph
The Media 2070 project, launched in 2020, calls on media companies, the government, philanthropy and the broader public to reckon with and repair the historical and ongoing harm our nation’s media system has caused Black people. We advocate for media reparations to achieve a future where Black people have the capital and power necessary to own and control our own stories, from ideation to production, through to distribution. The project’s home is within the broader reparations field, and a continuation of a lineage of racial justice organizing and movement mobilization that seeks to shift systemic power in service to repairing centuries of harm, enslavement and colonialism, and in alignment with new, regenerative economic systems that best serve intersectional Black liberation and Indigenous sovereignty. We must repair and redress media harm. To remedy structural inequities across the U.S. media system, Media 2070 engages and organizes Black media-makers and advocates, media outlets and publishers, policymakers and philanthropy. Through educational and cultural activations, research and narrative work, and policy interventions and advocacy, we reckon with and work to repair the harm our nation’s media system has caused, and showcase the possibilities for a future media that loves and cares for Black people. Media 2070’s goals are to transform the national conversation on race and media, grow the cultural conditions needed to support reparative interventions, and advance public-interest policies that would redress that harm.

Repair Media Harm

Advance media reparations and repair structural inequities throughout the media ecosystem.

Transform Systems

Mobilize journalists, advocates, philanthropy and policymakers to shift institutional power.

Advance Public Policy

Support policies that repair historical media harm and strengthen public-interest journalism.

Build Our Future

Create conditions where Black communities own, shape and distribute their own stories.

team Media 2070
Ashantia Oso portrait
Executive Director
Ashantia "Tia" Oso
Culture strategist, activist and speaker.
Joseph Torres portrait
Senior Advisor, Reparative Policy & Programs
Joseph Torres
Co-creator of the Media 2070 project.
Venneikia Williams portrait
Communications Director
Venneikia Williams
The "voice" most interact with first when learning about Media 2070.
Diamond Hardiman portrait
Director of Narrative & Creative Strategy
Diamond Hardiman
Leads innovative strategies to advance reparative narratives and reparations.
Afton Paige portrait
Managing Director, Operations
Afton Paige
Builds the operational systems, partnerships, and infrastructure that empower creativity, innovation, and bold storytelling across Media 2070.
media Reparations
2020
Media 2070 milestone 2020 The Essay
The Essay
Media 2070 examines the deep roots of anti-Black harm in America while inviting us to imagine and build a more just, reparative media future.
2023
Media 2070 milestone 2024 Black In The Newsroom
Black In The Newsroom
Creating space for Black journalists to reshape the future of journalism through community storytelling.
2024
Media 2070 milestone 2024 Black Future Newsstand
Black Future Newsstand
Journalism through art showing how real media reparations look like.
2025
Media 2070 milestone 2025 Riot To Repair
Riot To Repair
Transforming community memory into collective action by preserving stories.