Centering Our Stories Storytelling Event

Join the "Centering Our Stories" storytelling event on Wednesday, November 20 from 4 to 6 pm MST held virtually on Zoom. 

Join "Centering our Stories" November 20 on Zoom

This event is co-sponsored by the National Center on Disability and Journalism (part of Arizona State University's Cronkite School of Journalism and Mass Communications) and the Human Services Research Institute. It's part of a grant-funded project designed to better center stories on people with disabilities rather than only on the people around them. 

Part of the workshop will include videos of a dozen people with all kinds of disabilities, all ages and backgrounds from all over the country, each reading a true story based on the prompt "Friends."

This event is the latest activity in the grant project. The first half of the project involved listening sessions with journalists and people with disabilities -- asking how we can do better, what self-advocates are looking for from journalism (and not looking for) and the challenges journalists face in covering this population. 

The second half is a six-week storytelling workshop designed for people with disabilities to tell their own stories, unfiltered, as a way of re-centering stories in the right way. Amy Silverman is co-teaching that workshop with Emyle Watkins of the NPR station in Buffalo, NY.