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Our mission is to bring you the most inspiring and mind-expanding stories being told by Stanford faculty, students, fellows, and staff. It is also to promote and examine the craft of storytelling, especially oral storytelling, so we also bring you interviews, columns, and live events devoted to deepening our understanding of what makes great storytelling great. |
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advisory board
staff
DIRECTORJonah WillihnganzJonah has taught literature and writing at Stanford since 2002. He has published fiction, essays, and literary criticism, and received an MFA in creative writing from Hollins College and a PhD in English from Brown University. He is currently trying to write three books at the same time. 
MANAGING EDITORCharlie MintzCharlie writes and makes radio in San Francisco. He has an on-again-off-again relationship with the program CrossCurrents. He keeps a microphone on hand, because you never know. 
EVENTS COORDINATORAli McKeonAli McKeon is from Maui, Hawaii and graduated last year from Stanford. Her passion for dance has lead to an investment in the growth of the arts community at Stanford. She directed two of Stanford's largest arts festivals in the past two years--An Art Affair and Vision eARTh. She is excited to run the events for the Storytelling Project this year. 
FICTION EDITORDana KletterDana Kletter is an award-winning fiction writer, journalist, musician and teacher, currently a Stegner Fellow at Stanford University. She received her MFA from the University of Michigan, where she won two Hopwood prizes for Short Fiction and Novel. Her articles, essays and stories can be found in The Sun Magazine, Boston Phoenix, Michigan Quarterly Review, San Francisco Chronicle and Independent Weekly, and her music on Mammoth, Hannibal, Interscope, Rykodisc, and Engine Records. 
GRANTS MANAGERJohn LeeJohn Lee has taught writing at Stanford since 2005. He received his MFA from the University of Michigan and has been a resident fellow at the University of Wisconsin, Yaddo, the Headlands Center for the Arts, and the Helene Wurlitzer Foundation. Currently he lives in San Francisco and is completing a collection of short stories about Korean exiles in Asia and the West. 
PRODUCERXandra ClarkXandra Clark is a senior at Stanford earning a B.A. in Drama and Creative Writing. Most of her time is spent acting on stages of various kinds, memorizing lines, and making theater with children. She loves people and will gladly procrastinate for a few hours to hear your story. And then she might write about it. You can find her on IMDB and also on YouTube playing the fiddle with her bluegrass band, Nimbleweed. 
FILM EDITOR AND SENIOR PRODUCERNatasha RuckNatacha Ruck is a MLA student at Stanford. In her civilian life she is an Emmy award-winning producer of documentaries. Her video work has appeared at the MoMA, the Whitney Museum of American Art, as well as on National Geographic, NBC, and Link TV. 
PRODUCERRachel HamburgRachel Hamburg graduated Stanford in 2011 with an M.A. in English Literature. She's very excited in general, and especially excited about education, and art education. She spends a lot of her time talking to and taking pictures of strangers. 
MARKETING MANAGERCaroline MarksCaroline is a senior from connecticut, but will tell you she's Californian if you ask. She enjoys graphic design, traveling and cooking. 
BIG SHORTS series MANAGERKevin DiPirroKevin DiPirro is a writer and playwright. He teaches composition, performance, presentation, playwriting, and devised theater for Writing and Rhetoric, English, and Drama at Stanford University. He was educated at Swarthmore College, U.C. Berkeley and SF State. Kevin's plays have been produced in New York, Minneapolis and San Francisco. 
WEBSITE EDITORWill RogersWill Rogers graduated from Stanford in 2009 with a degree in Film Studies. He has contributed several pieces to the project, as a student and as an alum, and he is still producing audio in Richmond, VA. You can see more of his work at compostmodernist.org 
MUSIC EDITOR AND WEBMASTERNoah BurbankNoah is a PhD student in Management Science and Engineering. He studies Decision and Risk analysis, and likes making hip hop. You can find his music at soundcloud.com/nburbank and at noahburbank.com. He loves post- producing audio. 
WEBMASTERAzmaan OniesAzmaan Onies is an junior at Stanford majoring in Computer Science with a concentration in "Human Computer Interaction". Even though he is from Sri Lanka, he enjoys listening to American radio shows like This American Life and Radio Lab. If he's not programming in some random location, he's probbaly trying to get better at Tennis. 
Assitant ProducerChristy HartmanChristy studied writing at the Salt Institute of Documentary studies and loves doing research, shaping things and digging stuff up. Recently she has been experimenting with fiction. She likes the words of children and strangers and keeps a blog of this wisdom. Luckily for her, most of the people on the planet fall into this category, so she's rarely bored. 
ContributorFaraida PierreFaradia is a senior at Stanford, majoring in Human Biology and minoring in French. She became involved with The Stanord Storytelling Project as a story editor while studying abroad in Paris. Originally from Miami, Florida she's a fan of humidity and telling a good story. 
ContributorKilleen HansonKilleen graduated from Stanford in 2008 with a degree in English Literature. After two years of working to communicate differing perspectives graphically through her research at the Spatial History Lab at Stanford and orally with the Storytelling Project, she relocated to Portland, Oregon for an MFA in Applied Craft and Design at the Pacific Northwest College of Art (PNCA). She's eager to continue exploring how stories build community. 
ContributorLaura ChaoLaura Chao is a research scientist in the Stanford area, who studies alternative energy technologies ranging from solar thermal to fusion power. She is the creator and producer for the KZSU Science Report, and a contributor to the Stanford Storytelling Project. If she could have a super power of her choice, she would shoot lava out of her finger tips. 
ContributorEme AkpabioEme originated in California, flew off to Vermont for a few years and, after some fluttering about, alighted at Stanford. She is now a working stiff and taking time to re-visit activities long considered but not taken up. Outside of work, she is host of a music show on KZSU, and spends time baking, dancing, yoga-ing, reading, and trying to convince people that karaoke is more fun than not. 
ContributorLiz BradfieldLiz is the author of two collections of poetry: Approaching Ice (Persea, 2010) and Interpretive Work (Arktoi Books, 2008). The founder of Broadsided Press, her poems have appeared in The Atlantic Monthly, Poetry, Field, and elsewhere. A former Wallace Stegner Fellow at Stanford, she works as a naturalist and web designer. Her favorite animal today? The rhinoceros auklet. Visit her websites: Ebradfield.com, Broadsided, & Pelagic Design. 
ContributorDan MacDougallDaniel is a graduate of Stanford, where he studied computer science. He was also a member of the Stanford Savoyards. When not making radio you may find him enjoying wacky musical theater, cooking delicious and exotic foods, or playing Scrabble. He was once described as "a perfectly goofy but lovable book-wormish adventurer." 
Associate ProducerHannah Kopp-YatesHannah is studying Human Biology and believes that stories are the universe's way of understanding itself. She just returned from five months in Europe and still hasn't decided what she wants to be when she grows up. She's hoping to avoid growing up altogether, but in the meantime she meditates, learns languages, and tries her best to be like a plant, turning towards the light. 
ContributorHannah KrakauerHannah studied neurobiology and philosophy at Stanford before getting her masters in science writing at MIT. Her radio work has appeared on KUOW Presents, and her writing on Inside NOVA and Scope Magazine. She harbors a mild obsession with the brain activity of cephalopods. 
ContributorMatt LarsonMatt is a PhD student in the Stanford Biophysics Program, contributor to the NPR program Snap Judgment, and a producer with the Storytelling Project. He divides his time between a basement research lab (where he studies gene regulation) and the basement of KZSU (where he has produced audio essays about scientific fraud, superheroes, unicycles, the San Francisco dump, and sperm banks). 
ContributorEsteban ToroEsteban is a PhD student in Developmental Biology. His grandfather instilled in him a love of storytelling by saying things like: "See that tree over there? You can use its fruit to patch up the holes in your hydroplane's radiator." 
ContributorBonnie SwiftBonnie was a founding producer of the Storytelling Project and graduated from Stanford in 2008 with a BA in history, and is now living in Stockholm, attending the Konstfack University College of Arts, Crafts, and Design. She plans to move back to California as soon as possible. 
ContributorMicah CrattyMicah was one of the founding producers of the Storytelling Project. He studied International Relations and Creative Writing at Stanford before graduating in 2008. He now lives and writes in Los Angeles. 
ContributorDan HirschDan Hirsch graduated from Stanford in 2009 with a BA in American Studies. His work has appeared in the North Bay Bohemian, the Santa Cruz Weekly, the SFGate.com and on the airwaves of WLEZ Jackson, Mississippi. He lives in San Francisco and works for a Bay Area tech company you might know. 
ContributorArielle LaskyArielle studied bioethics and neurobiology at Stanford. She enjoys running, mastering public transportation systems (so far: Chicago, SF, NYC, DC, and the Marguerite), and taking hypothetical situations very seriously. Previously, she has interned at Radio Lab, followed around the Kitchen Sisters, and attended the Salt Institute for Documentary Studies. |
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The Storytelling Project is supported by the Stanford Institute for Creativity and the Arts, the Vice Provost for Undergraduate Education, Stanford Introductory Studies, Stanford Continuing Studies, and the Program in Writing and Rhetoric.