There’s all the time one thing to do in L.A. It’s a metropolis that mixes numerous cultures, creativity, and neighborhood. Meagan Ayana created totally different social media channels to work as an amplified voice for folks trying to construct their neighborhood in numerous areas of the town. Her final objective is to activate constant neighborhood engagement.
When trying into the longer term, Meagan sees herself educating the following era and engineering occasions that target the collective neighborhood.
“I undoubtedly need to be an occasion curator, like a neighborhood organizer, however I additionally need to be an educator. I might like to be a professor too,” she defined.
Meagan is initially from Phoenix, Arizona, however has been in Los Angeles for the previous decade, settling within the bustling Echo Park neighborhood. Her academic journey took her from Dysart Excessive Faculty in Arizona to Northwestern Excessive Faculty in Maryland, and at last to the Los Angeles Movie Faculty, the place she polished her inventive expertise. She is now on a mission to mix her abilities for schooling, activism, and occasion curating right into a dynamic platform that encourages others to change into concerned of their communities.
Meagan’s social media presence just lately shifted to give attention to community-building. She leverages her affect on totally different social media channels like Instagram and YouTube to share thrilling content material that promotes native occasions, encourages real relationships and invitations folks to change into lively individuals of their communities.
“I believe that we undoubtedly want to begin getting extra concerned with our neighborhood and being lively individuals,” Meagan mentioned, “I believed it could be enjoyable to begin creating content material that encourages and evokes folks to just do that, but in addition content material that showcases the enjoyable occasions that I like planning.”
As an illustration, the Temple Artwork Market; a month-to-month occasion held in Echo Park. “It actually simply showcases and amplifies native artists and small companies whereas encouraging folks to develop connections with folks of their neighborhood,” Meagan mentioned.
As she continues to increase her affect, Meagan stays targeted on her imaginative and prescient of a extra linked and engaged Los Angeles. By means of her work, she is not only organizing occasions—she is creating areas the place folks really feel seen, supported, and impressed to present again.
For these trying to get entangled, observe Meagan on social media to remain up to date on upcoming occasions and alternatives to attach with the neighborhood.
Observe Meagan on TikTok and Instagram @Meagan.Ayana
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