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Tell Me A Story: Bridging The Gap Between University Of Richmond Students And Bon Air Juvenile Correctional Center Residents, Sylvia Gale

Storytelling and Social Change

Dear Reader,

We are sixteen University of Richmond students who registered for a class called Storytelling and Social Change in the second semester of our first year of college. Our class explores the ways that stories—particularly life narratives—contribute to a community’s shared or imposed sense of identity, and considers whether and how storytelling is a tool for social change. As part of our class, we completed a Community Based Learning Project in which we worked with sixteen residents at Bon Air Juvenile Correctional Center to build relationships through stories. The goals of our storytelling workshop were:

1. Build a healthy …