Trinice McNally, founding director of the Center for Diversity, Inclusion and Multicultural Affairs (CDIMA) at UDC, is being featured on a docuseries on the Paramount+ streaming platform. 

“The Changemakers” is an eight-episode docuseries that premiered on January 1 and follows “an A-team of impassioned campaigners as they discover the work of several remarkable activists and their respective communities around the world.”  

McNally is one of those campaigners. According to the docuseries, she is described as “a Black, queer feminist, migrant and survivor who is committed to the liberation of oppressed people with a wealth of high-profile grassroots work to her name.” She’s known across the United States for her “transformative efforts around equitable and inclusive college campuses that foster the growth of historically marginalized students.” 

“I was selected as a Changemaker because of my work and accomplishments as an educator and community organizer,” McNally said. “The premise of the show is it features four activists, educators, and change agents in an eight-part series, where we explored several systemic issues spanning the U.K., U.S., Ghana, Denmark, and Lithuania.” 

McNally said that “each episode takes a ‘Changemaker’ journeying with a community organizer for two weeks to inspire, expand and understand their situation. The filming occurred during two different time periods and brought forth life-changing and spiritually-affirming opportunities that I hold dear.” 

Other Changemakers include Sean Binder, who rescued drowning refugees in Greece; Dr. Waheed Arian, a leading emergency room doctor in the U.K. who seeks to reduce inequities in physical and mental health care; and Flavia Broffoni, an activist and political scientist who is fighting against the climate crisis. 

The series explores issues that include mental health, LGBTQ+ and transgender rights in the U.S., the cost of living in the U.K., the link between systemic racism and maternal mortality, immigration and the environment, particularly access to clean water and overfishing. 

Each episode follows a Changemaker as they are paired up with a community organizer for two weeks “to inspire, expand and understand their situation.” 

“This experience came full circle by returning to my introduction to community organizing through advocacy and political education for LGBTQ+ communities in the South and connecting with the corruption of colonialism in West Africa that continues to attack our people, land and water spiritually,” McNally said. 

“The Changemakers culminates in a public campaign that galvanizes local support and curates a lasting legacy for those fighting for change in their community. The premise of the show is to help people understand the many systemic issues plaguing our world in an effort to mobilize and inspire them to make change,” she said. 

“The experience was life-changing, and I was honored to build global strategies across the world with other organizers and activists in the name of social justice. My hope is that everyone watches and identifies something they can do in their family and/or community and finds their place in this work,” McNally added.