The stories behind the stories
For a while now, we've been excited about the potential of digital stories to complement and augment "traditional" online journalism. Well, it's finally happening. Take a look at yesterday's New York Times, where a digital story produced by Brenda Manuelito and Carmella Rodriguez of nDigidreams is the video component to an article on health care issues among Native Americans. Brenda's brother's story, told in his own voice, drives home the issues described in the article, putting a real face to the reality of health care for American Indians.
Brenda Manuelito participated in a Creative Narrations Train the Trainer Digital Storytelling workshop at the Univesity of Arizona's College of Public Health in 2006. Since then, she has beome a tireless advocate for digital storytelling, zigging and zagging across the West to present at Native American and health care conferences. Way to bring these stories to a mainstream audience Brenda, congratulations!
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Thanks for the story behind the story feature, Tasha. It's funny how we can always trace our DS beginnings and when we caught "the DS bug."
I actually only "hosted" the 2006 Creative Narrations training at UA MEZCOPH for 10 of my staff and faculty. I also coordinated other trainings with you and Jen for the Tucson Indian Center and remember working with Josh Schachter and Terese Perrault to start a Tucson DS Collaborative.
I finally did my basic DS workshop with Gayle Nicholls-Ali in an Open workshop in Seattle, WA in August 2006 and took my Advanced Facilitator DS Workshop with Joe Lambert and Daniel Weinshenker on a Hog Farm in Lyons, CO in June 2007 (where I met Carmella Rodriguez). In the fall of 2006, I also helped to start the Seattle DS Collaborative with folks at Antioch University which is growing strong.
Now, I am planting "nDigiSeeds" across Indian Country with Carmella Rodriguez and trying to start Native Nations DS collaboratives too. We both definitely have "the DS bug" and I know your work with the Sunnyside high school students on a community grant we funded from UA was the first time I heard anything about DS.
Thanks for all the work Creative Nations does to keep plantings bugs, er, seeds too. The community building and social justice work you do is so important!
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