Piper Anderson is a writer, educator, and Founder/Chief Creative Strategist at CREATE FORWARD. Piper has spent more than fifteen years designing cultural organizing projects to end to the mass incarceration/criminalization of communities of color. In 2016, she was awarded a TED Residency. The residency is an incubator for breakthrough ideas. While at TED Anderson developed Mass Story Lab, a national storytelling project on the impact of incarceration. Her TED Talk, "Can Stories Create Justice?" documents the role of storytelling in creating transformative social change.