What happens in academic research when the subjects who are being researched are actually empowered to be active participants in the shape of the research process itself? Can the resulting story data yield insights with greater potential to stimulate discovery and change?

Our guest this episode is Judy Pryor-Ramirez, Clinical Associate Professor of Public Service and Faculty Director, Executive MPA Program at the Robert F. Wagner Graduate School of Public Service at New York University.

She shares with us her journey to developing academic research tools inspired by civil rights era theatrical techniques called “story circles”. These engagement methods were first established to spark dialogue around social injustice, voter disenfranchisement and segregation. She shares how this applying the “story circle” interview process can help academic social scientists reach deeper levels of understanding the dynamics of their research subjects’ lived experiences, especially in indigenous, Black and Latino communities.

In our conversation, Judy references a book to which she contributed, on the origin and extension of the “story circles” interview process method and case studies of its use in social science research. She provides our listeners with the following information about its availability.

Book title: Anti-colonial research praxis: Methods for knowledge justice

Edited by Caroline Lenette

Book website: https://manchesteruniversitypress.co.uk/9781526177001/

Discount code for 30% off on the publisher’s website: EVENT30

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Everywhere in the world non-profit organizations are challenged to pursue their mission, none more so than arts and cultural organizations like museums, ballet and opera companies, and theaters. Present circumstances with arts funding being cut exacerbates perennial struggles. Arts based non-profit organizations have always sought ways to grow their audiences efficiently, sell more tickets and build sustainable sources of funding. Now, this quest is mission critical.

Our guest this episode is Eric Nelson, Vice President, Global Partnerships at TRG Arts, an international change agency committed to building thriving arts and cultural organizations. Experts in the arts sector for over 25 years, TRG Arts has earned a reputation by successfully shaping for-profit and non-profit business models to focus on consumer relationships, financial stability, organizational frameworks, and people-centric teams.

In this episode, Eric talks about the need for non-profit arts and cultural organizations to be better storytellers as well as dispelling myths about growing, surviving and thriving in tumultuous times.

To learn more about TRG Arts: http://www.trgarts.com/

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Our guest this episode is Giovanni Boivin, the proprietor of The BookLoft, a 50-year-old independent bookstore in Great Barrington Massachusetts in the US. A “Storyteller turned Storyseller”, Gio (as he is known to staff and customers) turned a grade school love of story to a career that has manifested in creative writing and then relating the stories behind a tourist destination as a tour guide, at an historic house in the Berkshire region of Western Massachusetts he calls home. Since 2022 Gio has been the owner of The Bookloft, where he started as a clerk and wore many hats for years before becoming its steward and proprietor.

The Bookloft serves locals and visitors as an alternative to the big box retailers who have rendered many indie bookstores extinct. But fear not if Western Mass is not on your itinerary anytime soon. Gio presides over a healthy online business as well, that will locate and ship titles domestically for your reading pleasure and gifting needs. https://www.thebookloft.com/

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