Kwan Booth is an award winning journalist, creative writer and digital media strategist working at the intersection of communications, community, art and technology.

His awards include a Sigma Delta Chi Award from The Society of Professional Journalists, 2 Pushcart Prize nominations for fiction, a fellowship from Emerging Arts Professionals and grants from the Creative Capacity Fund.

He is the editor of the anthology “Black Futurists Speak” and has been featured in “Beyond the Frontier: Black Poets for the 21st Century” and “Chorus: a Literary Mixtape”.

His writing on media, technology and culture have been published in The Guardian, Fusion, the San Francisco Chronicle and All Digitocracy.

He currently works at Facebook, developing education strategies for news publishers and journalists. Previously he cofounded the hyperlocal news site Oakland Local and the youth technology training program Hack the Hood.

As a digital consultant and trainer he’s worked with organizations including the Knight Digital Media Center, The Kapor Center for Social Impact, the Online News Association, The National Conference on Media Reform, Public Radio International, J Lab, Paypal, Black Coalition on AIDS, and the International Journalism Festival in Perugia, Italy.

He smokes a lot, and drinks an entirely unhealthy amount of caffeine. But he’s working on that.