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Lucia made this story for a series of workshops on education sponsored by the Boston YWCA. She uses the piece frequently in her work as a community organizer to stimulate dialogue among parents about participation in the school system.

Julia reveals how she used her own personal experience with domestic violence to encourage other women in her neighborhood to seek help. This story is used as an organizing tool around family violence in the North End of Springfield, Massachusetts.

Unlike most people, Erin gets an incredible amount of joy through her work with teenagers through her job as a case worker. In her story, she explains why her profession has special meaning to her.

Andrea tells the story of engaging with protestors outside of a photography exhibit of LGBT families and contemplates how they can have such different understandings of God.

Betty wants to share her story to reach out to other young people who are suffering. She recounts the story of being abducted at 12-years-old by the Lord’s Resistance Army (LRA), a rebel army group, and forced to become a child soldier. When she escapes and returns to her village two months later, she finds it is deserted and can’t find her grandmother. Once reunited in a nearby village, she encounters the stigma, but also support from her family. With this support and counseling, she is currently in school and dreams of being a nurse.