We just finished up and launched our latest project, a professional online presence for Author, Speaker, Cultural Critic, and OSU Literature Professor, Dr. Koritha Mitchell. I honestly have to pinch myself sometimes because of the remarkable clients I get the opportunity to serve. For me, as the one who interacts most closely with clients, and helps bring their visions to life through their website, it’s always a learning experience full of suspense. When the project is ready to launch, it’s like the feeling of opening a much anticipated present–a mixture of wistful joy. Joy because of the happy surprise the finished project brings, and wistfulness because now that the “present” has been opened, the element of surprise has subsided.
When clients come to us, they need to find a way to represent themselves online. Most are exceptionally multi-faceted people who want to find a way to bring a bit of cohesion and focus to their presence so they can effectively reach their goals. Our time together is one in which I ask what must seem to them a thousand questions, so I can immerse myself in their world and understand who they’re speaking to, and what solutions they provide. I get to live vicariously through them for a time (maybe a theatre actor can relate to this). I work together with clients to organize their message and represent it all in a predominantly visual way–because the web is a visual medium first. I never have the slightest idea what that will look like until we get there–and the journey is nothing short of a ball. One in which I get to live in someone else’s fascinating world for a time, and soak up as much learning as I possibly can in the process. That’s pretty much my definition of fun, and it’s why I love my job.
Koritha Mitchell, like many of our clients, is a change agent. She’s passionate about her work, and exceptionally skilled in her chosen field. Her book, Living with Lynching is a critical study of lynching plays in American culture between 1890-1930, and how these plays served as a powerful community coping mechanism that helped African Americans band together and withstand the nation’s rejection of them as viable citizens. Dr. Mitchell is highly sought-after by the media, private sector, and academic institutions to provide insight, keynote events, and conduct workshops and lectures. If that isn’t enough, she’s active in a number of non-profits such as Black Girls Run (she founded the Ohio chapter) encouraging women to make fitness and healthy living a priority. A strong, accomplished woman who makes the world a better place by sharing her talent, intellect, and energy, Koritha Mitchell is indeed remarkable.
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