Creative Narrations provides support and training to document the unfolding stories in our neighborhoods.

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Natasha Freidus
Natasha Freidus is the founder and co-director of Creative Narrations. Before entering the media field, Natasha worked as an adult educator and organizer for eight years. It was through community building work that she developed her interest in the role of storytelling as a tool for social change. Natasha has conducted workshops in multimedia storytelling for diverse groups throughout the country. She has also studied and worked in a range of communities including the U.S./Mexican border, the Dominican Republic, and Thailand. Natasha earned her Masters degree in Urban Studies at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology where she was community media coordinator and a course instructor at The Center for Reflective Community Practice from 2001 to 2003. She believes that if she can learn how to connect a video camera to a computer, anyone can.

Jennifer Nowicki

Jennifer Nowicki joined Creative Narrations as a co-director in 2007 after many years of fruitful collaborations. Jennifer has been working as an instructor, program coordinator and technology trainer in adult education since 2003. She received her BA in Sociology from Boston College and her Masters degree in English Language and Linguistics from the University of Arizona and went on to teach and create digital stories with university students and instructors in China. She sees digital storytelling as a powerful way to express ourselves truthfully in a new language and engage in our communities. Jen has also coordinated the production of several program documentaries, including We Are Adult Education and Refugee Journeys in Tucson, AZ. She enjoys printmaking, photography and cooking very spicy food.

About - Associates

Lisa Dush teaches writing, literature and digital composition courses to college students, and collaborates with Creative Narrations to offer digital storytelling workshops. She is currently writing a dissertation for a Ph.D. in Rhetoric and Composition at the University of Massachusetts Amherst, a project that documents the attempts of an organization to integrate digital storytelling into its work over a one-year period. In her teaching, research, and the work of her technology consulting business, Storybuilders, Lisa enjoys helping people to both shape their experiences into stories and to improve their work lives through smart and sustainable use of new technologies.

Sean Effel

Sean Effel collaborates with Creative Narrations on digital storytelling trainings, video production, and web design. When he is not narrating creatively, he is production coordinator at Cambridge Community Television and co-director of the world's first four square league.


Julie Mallozzi

Julie Mallozzi is a documentary filmmaker based in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Her films explore the interactions between cultures thrown together by history, and between politics and personal stories.

Her debut film, Once Removed, premiered at Boston’s Museum of Fine Arts, won awards at numerous festivals, and aired on public television. It tells the story of meeting her mother's family in China and learning about their involvement in China's complicated political history. She recently completed Monkey Dance, a coming-of age story about three Cambodian-American teens navigating the confusing landscape of urban adolesence.
She also produces educational and outreach films for community organizations.


Vanessa Pabon

Vanessa Pabon is the acting director of Telling Our Lives Digitally (T.O.L.D.) in the North End community of Springfield, MA. With a background in web design and technology, Vanessa recently left her position as youth director at the North End Youth Center to launch the first community digital storytelling center in the country. When she isn't working on her own web design business, Vanessa can be found salsa-dancing throughout the Northeast corridor.



JaModi Robinson

JaModi Robinson worked in conjuction with various organizations throughout Boston over the several years before moving to Los Angeles in 2006. His goal is to create programs to link creativity and technology through learning within the city and beyond. JaModi teaches digital storytelling with Creative Narrations,and with his own production and training company, Digital Expressions. His work with digital storytelling stresses needs for individual expression and personal growth.


About - Get Involved!
Creative Narrations is always looking for motivated associates. Contact us (email below) if you are interested in collaborating in future projects.

About - Affiliations and Links
Creative Narrations is closely affiliated with the following institutions and organizations:

BlinkTank
Cambridge Community Television
Center for Reflective Community Practice
Center for Digital Storytelling
Digital Storytelling Association
MassImpact
Middlebury Collaborative for Digital Storytelling

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