Misan Harriman
The Catalyst
Ideas with a spark, energy, range and the ability to start things.
Misan Harriman earns The Catalyst by converting emotional witness into collective activation. He picked up a camera at a BLM protest with no training, went viral, and spent the resulting platform dissolving apathy rather than consolidating influence. His instruments, raw unplanned videos, protest documentation, an Oscar-nominated film, all share one design principle: move audiences from feeling to acting. Bridge-building and community ignition, not institutional reform or strategic positioning, remain his explicit and consistent purpose.
“I need to observe the human condition and if many of us are not trusting of what the news media is supposed to be doing, then let me at least bear witness with my lens and let the people decide what they see.”
“It kind of breaks down their walls of apathy and allows them to climb inside a different lived experience — that's the work, because that allows people to walk in shoes that are not theirs.”
“I hope I'm a voice that helps people build bridges. We should engage with them. A lot of people don't feel listened to.”
Ways to Change the World with Krishnan Guru-Murthy: “Misan Harriman on Meghan Markle, Gaza and shooting for Vogue”
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