Location: PA

I attended a workshop directed by Amy Hill, Community Projects Director for the Center for Digital Storytelling.  Telling my story was an eye-opening experience. I hope to begin helping others to tell their stories. I also hope that my story will help at least one person know that they are not alone and that there is hope for a better life.

I'm Associate Director of the Painted Bride Art Center, a multi-disciplinary presenting arts organization in Philadelphia, PA. I met the pied piper, Joe Lambert, about 2 years ago, drank the kool-aid and have been hooked ever since. Before coming to the Bride, my background was in filmmaking and the process of digital storytelling complements my philosophy that everyone has a story to tell that's worth telling the world.

The Bride is in the process of becoming a mid-Atlantic hub for CDS and incorporating digital storytelling into our program offerings and I'm heading those efforts. We recently completed Trading Tales, a digital storytelling project with high school students telling their stories of how they have been impacted by the violence on our city's streets. I've also participated in CDS' train-the-trainer.

I'm extremely pleased to join this community which extends our reach to the far corners of the earth.