Collette “Coco” Watson is a multidisciplinary social impact artist, writer, and cultural strategist whose work bridges sound, screen, stage, and community. Based in Phoenix, she leads Black River Life, a creative studio transforming stories of Black migration into pathways for liberation and care. Her practice spans immersive installations like Temple of Traveling Mercies, soul-infused albums, soundscapes, and documentary film. She directed Black in the Newsroom, an award-winning short documentary that exposes the emotional toll of systemic racism in mainstream media. Her work has been featured in TIME, PEN America, EBONY, and the Columbia Journalism Review. With a background in mass communications, organizing, and cultural strategy, Coco uses storytelling as a tool for ancestral memory, collective care, and narrative justice across the African Diaspora.