This is the place to learn more about my storytelling, scholarly work, and volunteer efforts.
My most recent storytelling project is "Standing Up: Women in Peace and Social Action", a storytelling project about women in history and current times, across the country and in Tompkins County, standing up, speaking out, and making noise.
Since Ithaca, NY doesn't have a regular venue for adult storytelling performaces, I teamed up with my friend and fellow-storyteller Regi Carpenter to perform "Standing Up" with her newly complete "Love is War", an oral history of her father and mother during World War II.
We launched "The Storytellers' Studio" with that project, and are planning to present Regi's interpretation of the story of Percival in mid-June.
"Standing Up" has gotten me thinking about storytelling and contemporary experience, and whether storytellers could function as journalists as much as they are treasured for keeping folk and fairy tales relevant. Would there be value in compiling news reports and personal experiences into storytelling performances?