Your Story Is Your Glory: Storytelling and Global Communications with Dee-1

Introduction

As part of the For Youth, By Youth movement, students will hone their abilities to convey powerful personal narratives through storytelling sessions led by Dee-1, an award-winning hip hop artist and activist known for his socially conscious lyrics. Students will contribute to the transformation of international higher education by illuminating, through storytelling and narrative analysis, the benefits of community-university partnerships for young people, institutions, and societies.

Students in the Storytelling working group will produce documentary films and case studies that will elevate innovative models of collaboration and impact, while changing assumptions and beliefs about the power and capabilities of young leaders.

The Storytelling workshops curate a space where For Youth, By Youth cohort members feel celebrated for showing up authentically as themselves and sharing who they are with the world through storytelling. Students use storytelling as a way to convey their aspirations and personal histories in a way that resonates with a global audience.