Ethical Storytelling

In the fifth season of Ethical Storytellings podcast we welcome a new guest host, Genelle Aldred, to explore power dynamics in Ethical Storytelling. For over a decade Genelle Aldred has worked at many of the UK’s largest broadcasting organisations. It has taken her in different directions and ended up in a non-linear career with diverse […]

We welcome Rachel Pieh Jones to the Power Dynamics Series. Rachel joins guest host Genelle Aldred to invite us in to her ever evolving journey of wrestling with power dynamics in storytelling. Rachel is the author of Stronger than Death, Finding Home, Djiboutilicious, and Welcome to Djibouti. Her work appears in the New York Times, Runners World, Christianity Today, Deadspin, and […]

We welcome Kent Annan to the Power Dynamics Series. Kent Annan joins guest host Genelle Aldred to explore power dynamics in storytelling. Kent is director of humanitarian and disaster leadership at Wheaton College, where he leads an M.A. program as part of the Humanitarian Disaster Institute. He’s on the board of directors of Equitas Group, a philanthropic […]

Part 3 of Lisa’s interview for the Power Dynamics Series. Make sure to grab your notebook for this one. Lisa Sharon Harper joins guest host Genelle Aldred to explore power dynamics in storytelling. In her 3 part episode, Lisa shares her perspective of the role story plays in maintaining hierarchies and her experience of bridge […]

Part 2 of Lisa’s interview for the Power Dynamics Series. Make sure to grab your notebook for this one. Lisa Sharon Harper joins guest host Genelle Aldred to explore power dynamics in storytelling. In her 3 part episode, Lisa shares her perspective of the role story plays in maintaining hierarchies and her experience of bridge […]

Make sure to grab your notebook for this one. Lisa Sharon Harper joins guest host Genelle Aldred to explore power dynamics in storytelling. In her 3 part episode, Lisa shares her perspective of the role story plays in maintaining hierarchies and her experience of bridge building by using narrative as her main tool. Weaving in […]

In the fifth season of Ethical Storytellings podcast we welcome a new guest host, Genelle Aldred, to explore power dynamics in Ethical Storytelling. For over a decade Genelle Aldred has worked at many of the UK’s largest broadcasting organisations. It has taken her in different directions and ended up in a non-linear career with diverse […]

Part 3 of the Donor Series explores the Donor – NGO – Constituent relationship triangle. Roy Goble, a major donor and board member for multiple NGO’s, shares his opinions about the lack of relationship facilitated between the donor and the constituent. Rachel challenges this, especially in contexts of extreme vulnerability. Both wrestle with the power […]

Part 2 of the Donor Series explores the Donor – NGO – Constituent relationship triangle. Roy Goble, a major donor and board member for multiple NGO’s, shares his opinions about the lack of relationship facilitated between the donor and the constituent. Rachel challenges this, especially in contexts of extreme vulnerability. Both wrestle with the power […]

Ethical Storytelling co-curator, Rachel Goble, sits down with her father, Roy Goble, to discuss ethical storytelling for donors. Roy Goble joined his family’s growing real estate business in his early 20’s and as the business flourished, he experienced the complexity of creating wealth while living generously. Today he runs a real estate investment company, sits […]

On today’s Ethical Storytelling NGO Podcast, we sit down with Katrina Boratko, the communications manager at Mama Hope. Her goal at Mama Hope is to amplify the voices of grassroots communities and train the next generation of the social impact workforce to reject the top down, pity based marketing strategies. She strongly believes that authentic, community driven storytelling inspires lasting social change. To listen to more, visit our Podcast page.

On today’s Ethical Storytelling NGO Podcast, we sit down with Cat. Born and raised in Northern Thailand, Cat was the first recipient of a scholarship from The Freedom Story in 2007. Cat’s story inspired an entire organization based on the simple belief that education could change her, and many others, future. Her original documentary was released in 2007 and screened in over 27 cities in America. Yet when given the option to put her film online, she chose not to, recognizing that she wanted to be remembered for who she has become, not who she was then. To listen to more, visit our Podcast page.

Today we sit down with Michael Kass, the founder for the Center of Story and Spirit, a Los Angeles based project that grew out of his passion for helping people in organizations discover and harness the power of their stories to create change. In this episode Michael shares when he first realized the power of story and gives practical tools for practitioners to create a storytelling culture within their organization and with their supporters.

Today we sit down with Nikole Lim from Freely in Hope, a speaker, educator, and consultant on leveraging dignity through the restorative art of storytelling. Her work is centered around shifting paradigms of how stories of trauma are told by platforming voices of the oppressed—sharing stories of immense beauty arising out of unexpected places. In this episode Nikole describes the role of the nonprofit in the storytelling space, the moment she realized story can be a process of identification and healing and how in spite of our differences there is something in our humanity that always unites us.

Today we sit down with April Kirby, a videographer and visual storyteller living in Dallas, TX. Her work with nonprofits has taken her all around the world. And though she has more than a decade of production experience, April is just getting started in the kind of work that fuels her soul. In this episode April talks about what drew her to nonprofit storytelling, the first time she realized her power as an editor, and how discovering the process of ethical storytelling is shaping the direction of her career.