Look at YOU now!
A retrospective of 15 months as an organization, in a pandemic, and wow it’s been a ride! I’m so grateful to our now outgoing Board: Folks who jumped in when we had no idea what this was going to be, and got us to where we are. I’m just as proud of our new Board, people who saw our crazy train fly past the station and jumped aboard to keep the momentum going.
Our network is the thing I’m most excited about: Folks from the TTRPG community, comics librarians, teachers, other professional geeks, and the creators! You all are like unicorns, I never did think people like this existed, but somehow hoped I would get to see one someday. It’s through this community that Creators Assemble has:
Started a collaborative Discord channel
Become Twitch affiliates
Built an educational toolkit for using comics in the classroom
Deepened our partnerships with organizations like Reading with Pictures, Make A Wish San Diego, and Knowhere Comics and Games
Became a publisher resource for building classroom and activity guides
Hosted an art exhibit
Blew the doors off a Free Comic Book Day fundraiser
Hosted webinars for Read Out and Read of Greater New York
... and so much more!
And yea, this is one big advertisement for us, a little, but also a way for me to say, over and over, how truly grateful, humbled, and frickin’ blown away I am. You, reader, human in our network, amazing being of more power than you know, helped us get here. WE, collaboratively, made it happen. I can’t WAIT to announce what I know is coming next, let alone to see this crazy train reach stations I never even knew existed. Cheers to you, and to us, today and everyday.
- Moni Barrette, Co-Founder