Hey, It’s Ahsante!

Ahsante Bean is a multimedia storytelling strategist.

Her work focuses on using online video, digital media, and social platforms to build community, increase empathy, and create a more informed public.

Ahsante is currently producing Bean Thinking, a YouTube video series about imagining a democratic future with liberty and justice for all, as an Us@250 Fellow with New America.

Ahsante offers consulting services and public speaking in addition to being an independent content creator. She helps mission-driven brands and media companies develop informative, insightful content to reach digital-first audiences.

For the past decade, she has produced videos for her YouTube channel “Ahsante the Artist,” where she documents her journey and encourages her audience to move consciously and creatively through life. Her work has been featured in The Washington Post, Buzzfeed, MSNBC, The Root, and in the Museum of the Moving Image.

Previously, Ahsante was Editor of Video Strategy at The Poynter Institute, where she led VidSpark, a program in partnership with the Google News Initiative focused on developing innovative social media video content with local newsrooms to reach younger audiences. She also led video strategy and supervised production for PolitiFact, the largest political fact-checking organization in the United States.

Prior to Poynter, Ahsante was Associate Director of Programming at PBS Digital Studios where she worked on a slate of 20 educational online video series. There she created Say It Loud, a series celebrating Black history and culture. She has also worked in Children’s Programming at WGBH, and as a multimedia storyteller at the global design firm IDEO.  

Ahsante holds a B.A. in Film & Video from Harvard University. She’s currently based in Washington, D.C.

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Past Production Partners