Fifteenth Point, LLC is a media and communications company created and directed by Iman Shervington in 2015. Offerings include: film production and development, photography, graphic design, website development, social media management and general communications consulting.
FIFTEENTH POINT
In January of 1918 U.S. President Woodrow Wilson made a speech to Congress in which he declared Fourteen Points that he believed would serve as the basis for peace to end World War I. While the plan promoted democracy and peace abroad, Black Americans regularly faced rampant and violent racism, maltreatment and inequality, which activated many prominent Black figures at the time (such as Marcus Garvey, Ida B. Wells, William Monroe Trotter, Madam C. J. Walker and A. Phillip Randolph) to discuss motions, amendments and additions to Wilson’s plan and even suggest sending a Black delegation to the Paris Peace Conference of 1919. One such amendment was a Fifteenth Point, which called for the:
“…elimination of civil, political and judicial distinctions based on race or color in all nations for the new era of freedom everywhere."
From New Orleans to Kingston, Bahia to Barcelona, Fifteenth Point strives to create lasting and meaningful change through media, messaging and art that is committed to this fifteenth point to usher in a new era of equity, freedom and liberation for oppressed people of color throughout the diaspora.
About Iman Shervington
Iman Shervington, MFA is the owner and founder of Fifteenth Point, LLC. She received her BA from the University of Southern California in International Relations (2005) and her Masters of Fine Arts in Directing from Columbia University (2010) with a concentration in Directing and Screenwriting. Iman currently serves as the Director of Media & Communications at the Institute of Women & Ethnic Studies (IWES), where she oversees IWES’ social media and external brand presence and recognition. Through her work at IWES she has created over 50 short films and PSAs, as well as a feature-length documentary and two feature-length narrative films. Through her training in social marketing, Iman led the development of two social marketing campaigns and most recently, a public will campaign to advocate for more Trauma Informed Care services for youth in New Orleans entitled In That Number. Iman has also been trained in multiple teen pregnancy prevention interventions and has implemented reproductive health programming with youth since 2010. To disseminate her work at IWES, Iman has presented at 15+ national and international conferences on topics ranging from social marketing to the relationship between marketing and media, and she has shown her media work at a variety of national and international film festivals. Through IWES, Iman has been fortunate to write/direct/edit two feature films, a narrative entitled Woke and a documentary entitled Back Story.
In 2011 Iman was trained in Participatory Action Research through the Public Science Project’s First Annual Summer Institute on Critical Participatory Action Research. In 2016 she was chosen as a Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Culture of Health Leader in their inaugural cohort to promote a Culture of Health in her community. That year she also received the award for Changemaker in the New Orleans-based Millennial Awards and received executive training through Spitfire’s Executive Leadership Program. In 2017 Iman was chosen to attend the Aspen Ideas Festival as a part of their Scholars Program. That year she also served on the Program Committee for the annual Youth+Tech+Health conference, YTH Live. In 2018 she also participated in WAKE’s Tech2Empower program, which leverages the power of technology to support female change-makers in the non-profit/NGO sector. Finally, in 2019 she also joined Texas A&M University’s iTP3 Design Cadre to receive training in Human Centered Design principles.
Iman has extensive experience working both individually and building/overseeing teams to facilitate and manage projects. She is a visionary thinker that loves to catalyze, build upon and uplift the creativity inherent in those around her, yet she is also committed to the day-to-day execution of core tasks to accomplish project deliverables. Outside of film and communications, Iman has further experience in graphic design, focus group facilitation, photography, curriculum development, presentation development (PowerPoint, Keynote, Prezi), positive youth development, and media literacy.