The Griot Series – Workshop 2: Stewarding Your Family's Story with Fatou Sow
Bring your stories to the table for Workshop 2 of The Griot Series, an interactive session with Fatou Sow on stewarding your family's story. This interactive workshop teaches a holistic approach to documenting and sharing family histories using writing, photography, video documentation, and 3D installation.
You will learn a thoughtful process for working with family archives, followed by a guided "show-and-tell" exercise where you can practice storytelling using your own materials. Whether you have boxes of old photos, a head full of family lore, or just a growing curiosity about where you come from, this workshop offers a warm and welcoming space to explore what it means to care for those stories.
While membership to the Memory Keepers Club is exclusive to BIPOC persons under 40 years old, friends and allies are welcome to attend the public programming, such as the Griot Series!
Get to know our featured griot, Fatou Sow:
Fatou Sow is a creative writer, oral historian, and communications professional with Senegalese and African American roots from Detroit, MI. Her creative work focuses on familial connection, self-reflection, and humanistic experiences shared across the Black diaspora. She seeks to understand the power of generational confluence through storytelling, family photography, music, and Black history. As a multi-hyphenate, she finds herself questioning the meaning of life, from grief to love and religion to language.
Fatou is an Adjunct Professor at Howard University in the Cathy Hughes School of Communications Annenberg Honors Program and Program Manager in the School of Business Office of Executive Education. Fatou's work at The Sow Portfolio has spanned industries, including international relations, higher education, fashion, beauty, the creative arts, non-profit, defense, blockchain technology, fintech, and business. Her writings have been published in Vogue, The SAIS Observer, the Passion Planner, Riverwise Magazine, The Amistad, and A Gathering Together, and have been showcased in safe spaces for women, such as BasBlue. Fatou earned a BA in Strategic, Legal, and Management Communications from Howard University and an MA in International Relations, with a focus on International Economics and African Studies, from the Johns Hopkins University School of Advanced International Studies in Italy.
About the Memory Keepers Club
The Memory Keepers Club is a digital-first social club for young BIPOC archivists and preservationists. The Club was founded by Journee Harris in the summer of 2025 as a response to the growing interest among Millennials and Gen Z in preserving their family history, personal memories, and collective stories. Follow us on IG at @memorykeepersclub.