Cecily Tyler

Founder, docutribe

As a global citizen with 25 years of experience as a filmmaker and storyteller, Cecily Tyler has focused her work on supporting leadership, innovation, social impact and community engagement through film, technology and art. Cecily’s past experience includes working as a trained journalist, educator, TV director and producer of documentary, interactive gaming, theater, animation, and film. She has created content for the Discovery network; PBS/WGBH; the NBC News educational website — “NBC News Learn;” New York Times Television; BBC NYC; The Bloomberg Harvard City Leadership Initiative, Brown Alpert Medical School; The Department of Labor YouthBuild, YouthBuild USA and multiple independent productions.

“I want to be able to talk about solutions. If you’re just reporting on the problems, people only know how to speak about and live with the problems. If you offer storytelling as a problem-solving tool, people will begin to talk about the solution, and then develop and draft the needed envisioned change. At that point they can begin to act in the spoken solution.”

Tyler has also worked with not-for profits in the arts/education sector including the Nantucket Film Festival, Bronx Community College, Raw Art Works, and McLean Hospital. She currently serves as a board member at the Handel & Haydn Society as well as for their Diversity and Inclusion Committee; at the Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston on their general advisory board and for their Education Committee; at McLean Hospital on their Women’s Mental Health Leadership Council; The Boston Dance Theater and Prosper Mama Africa.

Since obtaining her Harvard Kennedy School of Government M.P.A. in 2016 Cecily has served as a Fellow at the Harvard Innovation Labs, Summer of 2016, and then at the Innovation Field Lab at the Harvard Kennedy School of Government Ash Center for Democratic Governance and Innovation until 2020. Cecily developed pedagogues and teaching tools for professors and students that leverage the video essay in standard and field-based, design oriented accelerator courses at Harvard University and beyond.

She has also consulted and project-managed innovative media-capacity building initiatives with non-profits, private-sector organizations, and government officials internationally in the U.S.A, Mongolia, Ghana, and The Netherlands. Cecily is the founder of docutribe, Inc. the organization that believes in the transformative power of storytelling, filmmaking, and technology to create social good.