Story-Sharing Projects
Story-sharing projects use in-depth interviews to tell compelling and contemporary stories. Shorter in duration and with more immediate effect than a full oral history project, these projects highlight the impact of a nonprofit on those it serves, the contributions of a business to its industry or community, the significance of an organization to its members, or the perspectives of a group with a shared identity. Clients can use interview material in marketing and fundraising efforts or to develop websites, podcasts, museum exhibits, theatrical performances, and creative and nonfiction writing.
I have shared the stories of boxers with Parkinson’s disease in a virtual web exhibit; written one book based on interviews with women Vietnam veterans and another based on interviews with former residents of a home for “unwed mothers”; and helped adapt the stories of Eat Street restaurateurs into a museum exhibit.
My goal is to help clients share the stories they want to tell with the audience they want to reach. I am especially interested in amplifying the stories of nonprofits, small and women-owned businesses, and individual, collective, and corporate change-makers.
Learn more about some of my projects:
"Eat Street at 20: In Their Own Words," exhibit at Hennepin History Museum based on the Whittier Alliance's Eat Street Oral History Project
Harry Pontiff, Profiles in Courage: Rock Steady Boxers Project; photo by Robyn Mathews-Lingen
Oral history interviews can also serve as the basis of books and articles