I am a business woman nearing retirement, which I plan to spend making and sharing digital stories and teaching digital storytelling. I volunteer with The Mastery Foundation (www.masteryfoundation.org), an organization that has launched an international School for Leaderhip, to support and train grassroots community leaders and clergy of all faiths. The current cohort in the 3-year curriculum includes participants from the US, Israel (both Arab and Jewish Israelis), and Northern Ireland (both Protestants and Catholics). Part of my role in the School is community storytelling, creating an avenue for stories of both the participants and the (almost) all-volunteer school builders to be captured, produced and shared. I am also a fund-raiser for the School.



As part of the “Learn 2 Teach, Teach 2 Learn” (L2T, T2L) program (and sponsored by MassIMPACT), this project proposes to train high-school urban youth at the 