Today we are joined by Amy Hill, Yakuta Poonawalla, and Cassidy Villeneuve, creators, and facilitators of a new workshop experience at StoryCenter, the founders of the digital storytelling movement. I met Amy, Yakuta, and Cassidy while a student in the pilot of the Earth Stories workshop. This workshop focuses on the personal connections individuals have with the natural world.

In this conversation, Amy, Yakuta, Cassidy, and I talk about how this workshop was created, how digital storytelling can change peoples’ minds, and so much more.

LINKS

StoryCenter

View films from Earth Stories pilot

Frameworks Institute

Episodic vs. Thematic Stories

Paolo Friere

GUEST PROFILES

Amy Hill, StoryCenter

Amy is director of Silence Speaks, an initiative that works to bring personal stories into education and advocacy environments around women's rights and human rights. Amy also coordinates a lot of StoryCenter's social justice and environmental justice work.

Yakuta Poonawalla, Earth Stories Facilitator

Yakuta works at Golden Gate Parks Conservancy in San Francisco, CA, and feels extremely lucky and privileged to tell stories of the natural world and find ways to connect Bay Area communities to the natural world and parks in San Mateo and Marin counties.

Cassidy Villeneuve, Earth Stories Facilitator

Cassidy works at Frog Hollow Farm, a regenerative organic farm in California, and is interested in connecting experts, scientists, farmers, and individuals with expertise in climate solutions, to a broader audience through storytelling. 

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• Producer: Tania Marien
• Music: So Far So Close by Jahzzar is licensed under a Attribution-ShareAlike License;
• SOLO ACOUSTIC GUITAR by Jason Shaw is licensed under a Attribution 3.0 United States License.
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