Resilience through Story: Advancing the Power and Possibilities of the Humanities through Online Storytelling Platform Design

FAIN: HC-274985-20

International Storytelling Center (Jonesborough, TN 37659-1239)
Kiran Sirah (Project Director: May 2020 to October 2022)

Retention of seven staff members of the International Storytelling Center (ISC), based in Jonesborough, Tennessee, to develop a new storytelling platform enabling scholars, students, educators, and the public to access ISC’s digital archives.  

The International Storytelling Center (ISC) has been at the forefront of connecting communities through story, and serves as a national resource center for networking, research, critical conversations and innovation for the storytelling field. With this proposal, ISC will leverage our organizational expertise and ingenuity to create safe ways to carry on as a devoted steward of this traditional form. The online storytelling platform developed under this proposal will enable virtual access to ISC’s rich repository of storytelling history, story-based curricula, community-building tools, and curated humanities-focused programming. [Edited by staff]