About
The National Collaborative for Health Equity (NCHE) believes that health equity requires creating the conditions that foster the best possible health for all populations, regardless of race, ethnicity, socioeconomic status, or nativity. It requires us to actively measure and improve conditions for health and well-being, including policies, physical environments, and systems. And it requires us to correct historic and contemporary injustices and inequities that are often brought about by racism operating at structural, institutional, and interpersonal levels.
Since 2016, The Heartland Center for Jobs & Freedom has offered the Kansas City Speakers Corps, a series of sessions designed for low-wage workers who are leaders in the livable wage movement and union rights to learn and practice the art of story-telling and advance their public speaking skills. The goal of the program is to build leadership and capacity for workers to become stronger speakers and storytellers to better reach the hearts and minds of the public and of decisionmakers.
In 2017, a graduate of Speakers Corps shared his story at the NCHE’s People, Power, Purpose (P3) Summit. The value of the storytelling workshop was immediately apparent. In order to respond to the expressed needs of the movement-building and community-organizing communities, NCHE engaged The Heartland Center for Jobs & Freedom to translate the course into a storytelling workshop “in a box” that could be implemented by any community working for equity and justice.
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This project was generously supported by
the Marguerite E. Casey Foundation
and the
the WK Kellogg Foundation
Credits
produced by
Gina Chiala
Laura Runnels
created and written by
Gina Chiala
narrated by
Gina Chiala
Terrence Wise
directed and edited by
Steve Hebert
design and animation by
tyler galloway