The country’s only bullet-proof roadside marker. Words by Dave Tell. Photo by Johnathon Kelso.

Clients, Partners, and Projects include:

Emmett Till Interpretive Center

Restorative justice through storytelling, public education, and historic preservation

Bullet-Proof Sign

Design consultant and writer for America’s only bullet-proof roadside marker

included by FAVOR

Creative solutions for social equity and human dignity.

Eyes on the Prize: Reclaimed

Historical Consultant

William Winter Institute for Racial Reconciliation

Dr. Tell speaks of vandalism and memory at 1:01:37

Department of Communication at Wheaton College

The Admissions Project

First-person stories of the devastation wrought by Segregation Academies. 

The Children’s Museum of Indianapolis

Design consultant for Emmett Till & Mamie Till-Mobley: Let the World See

Department of Rhetoric and Writing at the University of Mississippi

Voices Underground

Racial healing through storytelling

Widen the Circle

Fighting Bigotry. Starting with History.

Dave Tell is a Berlin Fellow with Widen the Circle.

Outdoors Unscripted

Using storytelling and the visual arts to build environmental consciousness and drive economic growth.  

A digital platform to preserve the story of Emmett Till

Emmett Till & Mamie Till-Mobley Institute

Historical Consultant | Digital Humanities