Returning to Talent for a picture of recovery.

Written and recorded by Ro Ruikis

Sound editing and original music: Tejas Leer Heyden

Project management by Susannah Cole and Mark Yaconelli at the Hearth 

Shaping Ash is funded by the Ford Family Foundation, the Hearth, and the lab of Professor Frank Chaplen at Oregon State University.

Special thanks: Susannah Cole, Mark Yaconelli, friends, family, community

Fire as a tool for cultural empowerment and ecosystem health in the Klamath-Siskiyous.

Written and recorded by Ro Ruikis

Sound editing and original music: Tejas Leer Heyden

Project management by Susannah Cole and Mark Yaconelli at the Hearth 

Shaping Ash is funded by the Ford Family Foundation, the Hearth, and the lab of Professor Frank Chaplen at Oregon State University.

Special thanks: Debra Whitall and Allie Rosenbluth

PART 2

Harm Reduction and mutual aid in the Medford area following the fires. The City of Medford passes a camping ban, making it a misdemeanor to use a tent in public. Hopes for a more compassionate Rogue Valley.

Written and recorded by Ro Ruikis

Sound editing: Tejas Leer Heyden

Music by Simon Ficker
Project management by Susannah Cole and Mark Yaconelli at the Hearth 

Shaping Ash is funded by the Ford Family Foundation, the Hearth, and the lab of Professor Frank Chaplen at Oregon State University.

Special thanks: Derek DeForest and Jayden Becker

PART 1

The Almeda Fire, from the Bear Creek Greenway. Local efforts to support unhoused neighbors in the immediate aftermath. The City of Medford raids a mutual aid camp at Hawthorne Park.

Written and recorded by Ro Ruikis

Sound editing: Tejas Leer Heyden

Music by Simon Ficker
Project management by Susannah Cole and Mark Yaconelli at the Hearth

Shaping Ash is funded by the Ford Family Foundation, the Hearth, and the lab of Professor Frank Chaplen at Oregon State University.

Special thanks: Derek DeForest and Jayden Becker

PART 3: what we sow

Efforts to secure housing for fire survivors. Community-based organizations collaborate to keep people safely housed. Reflections and hopes for the future in the Rogue Valley.

Written and recorded by Isabella Ro Ruikis

Sound editing: Tejas Leer Heyden

Music by Simon Ficker. Outro music in part 3 by Jeffrey Thielsen
Project management by Susannah Cole and Mark Yaconelli at the Hearth 

Shaping Ash is funded by the Ford Family Foundation, the Hearth, and the lab of Professor Frank Chaplen at Oregon State University.

Special thanks: Sara Cervantez and Hector Flores

PART 2: what comes after

How locals sprang into action in the immediate aftermath of the Almeda Fire. Fire survivors struggle to get FEMA aid.

Written and recorded by Isabella Ro Ruikis

Sound editing: Tejas Leer Heyden

Music by Simon Ficker. Outro music in part 3 by Jeffrey Thielsen
Project management by Susannah Cole and Mark Yaconelli at the Hearth

Shaping Ash is funded by the Ford Family Foundation, the Hearth, and the lab of Professor Frank Chaplen at Oregon State University.

Special thanks: Sara Cervantez and Hector Flores

PART 1: what happened

How the Almeda Fire swept through four towns along Bear Creek. Local challenges in disaster management.

Written and recorded by Isabella Ro Ruikis

Sound editing: Tejas Leer Heyden

Music by Simon Ficker. Outro music in part 3 by Jeffrey Thielsen
Project management by Susannah Cole and Mark Yaconelli at the Hearth

Shaping Ash is funded by the Ford Family Foundation, the Hearth, and the lab of Professor Frank Chaplen at Oregon State University.

Special thanks: Sara Cervantez and Hector Flores

The beginning of the journey. Join Isabella, Marcella, and Susan for their story of the Almeda Fire.


Written and recorded by Isabella Ro Ruikis
Sound editing: Tejas Leer Hayden
Intro music by Bret Levick
Shaping Ash is funded by the Ford Family Foundation, the Hearth, and the lab of Professor Frank Chaplen at Oregon State University.
Project management: Susannah Cole and Mark Yaconelli at the Hearth 
Special thanks: Mark Yaconelli, Susannah Cole, Allie Rosenbluth, Theo Whitcomb