“I preserve, protect, and uplift Black stories—especially those untold. My work builds bridges between generations, centers truth, and uses storytelling as a tool for care, connection, and collective growth.”

Get to Know Laurice

• Leads with care and curiosity 
• Career producer - with experience directing and producing across film and media platforms 
• Enjoys working intergenerationally and building partnerships that last 
• Inspired by Angelique Power’s ability to speak truth to power within institutional philanthropy 
• Committed to building community-based spaces where learning and healing can happen

Biography

Laurice Bell is an Emmy-nominated cultural strategist, producer, and care-centered leader committed to preserving and activating Black stories through community-rooted storytelling. As Executive Director of Shorefront Legacy Center, she leads with vision and empathy—bridging generations through narrative, memory, and movement-building.

Laurice is the creator of the Intergenerational Interview Project, a groundbreaking oral history series documenting the experiences of Evanston’s reparations recipients. She is also executive producer of the Evanston Rules podcast and a key producer behind Stolen School, a powerful documentary exploring the legacy of Black educational resistance.

Whether moderating panels, producing cultural media, or designing public history programs, Laurice centers care, trust, and truth. Her work challenges institutions to honor lived experience, and invites communities to reimagine leadership as an act of remembrance and repair.

She speaks widely on intergenerational collaboration, narrative justice, and Black archival power.

Features

• The Weight of Now, Evanston Roundtable
• Evanston Rules Podcast 
• Evanston Cradle to Career/Advocates for Action Interview