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Life on the Road: Adventures with StoryCorps’ Mobile Tour Staff (September 1 - 7, 2023)

It’s been an amazing week in Green Bay, Wisconsin! September 1st After arriving in the city on Wednesday night, I head to the airstream for my first day of recordings in Green Bay on Friday morning. As I resettle into the booth, my colleagues and I are also preparing to finish our stop here – […]

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Life on the Road: Adventures with StoryCorps’ Mobile Tour Staff (August 25 - 31, 2023)

Today’s the day – I’m flying back to join the Mobile Tour Team in Green Bay, Wisconsin! Depending on where the team is located, travel days can look pretty different. This time around, I decided to take advantage of the team being in the Midwest by taking a quick trip to visit family friends in […]

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Staff Spotlight: Christopher Norris

About Me: I’m a self-taught drummer who has played professionally for over a decade, including auditioning for Diddy’s Making the Band reality TV show in 2009 — earning a skip-the-line pass for the New York auditions after being the only drummer from Philly to make the cut. I’m an excellent cook, avid reader, and a […]

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Commemorating the Anniversary of September 11

In recognition of the anniversary of the September 11, 2001 attacks, we have put together a few stories from our September 11th Initiative.

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One Small Step: A Proxy for Personal Conversations?

Not long into her initial One Small Step conversation, Kim noticed something a bit uncanny. Here she was expecting to begin a discourse with her political counterpart, someone with opposing political points of view. But from the outset, the gentleman on the other end of the Zoom call was starting to seem eerily familiar and […]

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StoryCorps' 20th Anniversary Broadcast Specials

In honor of StoryCorps’ 20th anniversary, our classic fixture on NPR’s Morning Edition shared a series of special extended broadcasts that revisited five classic StoryCorps conversations with updates on our participants. Listen to a few of our favorite classics revisited. 20 Years Later A Couple Reflects On A Tender Moment Captured In The StoryCorps Booth […]

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Life on the Road: Adventures with StoryCorps’ Mobile Tour Staff (August 18 – 24, 2023)

I’m back with another blog post! Last time, I shared a little bit about office life, road life, and my journey on the Mobile Tour so far. This week I’m going to dive a little deeper into the work I do in office. A lot of my office work involves outreach and setting up partnerships […]

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Life on the Road: Adventures with StoryCorps’ Mobile Tour Staff (August 10 - 17, 2023)

Welcome back to our Mobile Tour Blog Series! I’m Manuela, a Bilingual Facilitator on the StoryCorps Mobile Tour. I started traveling with the Tour back in October 2022 in Las Vegas, Nevada. After exploring Texas, New Mexico, Colorado, Utah, and Michigan, I’m now entering into the final two months of my year-long Mobile journey. There […]

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Stories for Music Lovers

Music is truly a universal language. It has the unique ability to connect us with new cultures, to inspire wide change and protests, and in turn it expands our hearts. Here at StoryCorps, we have recorded many stories about music’s impact on our lives. Listen to some of our favorites. Do you or a loved […]

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Perception Gaps and How We Can Overcome Fear of "the Other Side"

Nine in 10 people today believe that America is more divided than at any other point in their lifetime. Yet despite pronounced differences across race, geography, education, and class, Americans generally tend to overestimate the prevalence of extreme views held by those with differing political views (“the other side”) on key issues like race, immigration, and policing.