Anneshia Hardy

Anneshia Hardy is a cultural narrative strategist, researcher, and scholar-practitioner whose work examines the intersection of culture, media, narrative power, political meaning-making, and democracy. She serves as the executive director of Alabama Values and Alabama Values Progress, where she leads narrative strategy, messaging, and public engagement initiatives focused on voting rights, civic participation, and democratic power-building across the American South. Hardy is also the creator of the Applied Cultural Meaning and Memory Framework™ (ACMM Framework™), a narrative methodology that examines how meaning is constructed through culture, storytelling, media, and collective memory, and how those meanings shape public understanding, civic engagement, and political power.