Amplify’s Public Impact Grants are $10,000 awards over 2-years ($5,000 each year) that provide funding and logistical support to Omaha-area artists and organizers whose working processes foreground civic engagement, community-informed collaboration, and creative problem solving to better understand the complexities of systemic challenges and their impacts on communities.

Public Impact Grant Recipients

2022-23

Zedeka Poindexter was awarded a Public Impact Grant by an external selection panel in the amount of $10,000 to develop new, public-facing work that interrogates the disparities facing Black women in the healthcare system.

Over the course of her two-year grant term, Zedeka will conduct and transcribe interviews with Black women to gather stories that shine a light on how their lived experiences, bodies, and voices are often minimized, manipulated, and ignored when seeking medical care.

Zedeka will transmute these stories into a layered choreopoem that uses sight, sound, touch, and feeling as tools to center empathy and understanding. The finished piece will have a local run and dedicated performances for audiences of Omaha-area medical practitioners specifically. As an integrated piece of her staged work, Zedeka will also make her process simple to replicate for other communities by developing an interview guide, transcript analysis toolkit, and production roadmap.

2016-2020