About
Worthy Studio recognizes that every voter, supporter, donor, and neighbor is worthy of outstanding outreach and communications.
Worthy is run by Alex Dodds (she/her), a communications organizer who works with campaigns and nonprofits to amplify their work and help more people participate. Alex has partnered with labor federations, national nonprofits, global initiatives, and community-based organizations to build brands, showcase programs, and grow communities of support.
Prior to founding Worthy Studio, Alex was the Open Cities Storyteller at the Sunlight Foundation, a program of Bloomberg Philanthropies’ What Works Cities, and Communications Director at Smart Growth America, home to Transportation for America and the National Complete Streets Coalition. She served previously as Campaign Communications Director at the Strategic Organizing Center, and on the communications team at Walmart Watch, a project of SEIU. Her clients have included the Working Families Party, Bend the Arc: Jewish Action, Metro Washington Council AFL-CIO, the Global Designing Cities Initiative, and more.
In addition to her professional work, Alex organizes in many grassroots spaces. She is a core organizer of Hands Off DC, a coalition of over 50 organizations working to stop Congressional interference in DC laws. Alex has been a leader on campaigns to stop white nationalists from staying in Airbnbs, stop Jeff Bezos from naming the MLK Library auditorium after himself, and more. From 2019-2020 she served as the Communications Chair for the Campaign to Elect Janeese Lewis George. In 2023 she was selected to participate in Momentum Community’s organizing training institute.
Alex lives and works in Ward 4 Washington DC, the traditional and unceeded land of the Nacotchtank and Piscataway peoples past and present.
WORK PRINCIPLES
Worthy Studio is dedicated to the multigenerational, multiracial movement for justice and collective safety. This practices recognizes that our words and actions are powerful, we can never loose when we are connected with one another, and we already have what we need to win.
Writing, design, and digital communications are tools in this work. The way we use them can and should evolve to meet specific communities and moments. We strive for excellence while also approaching our work with creativity and exploration. Accessibility and inclusion always makes our work stronger.
Worthy Studio is informed by the work of the Othering & Belonging Institute at the University of California, Berkeley; the principles for prototyping a feminist business published by Sister; the inclusive linguistics guidance of Radical Copyeditor; and the design of today’s most powerful movements. A copy of Sister Mary Corita Kent’s Immaculate Heart Art Department Rules is in our work space is a reminder that everything is an experiment.