Every year, we host live shows - in person and online - Around the world with all kinds of storytellers: researchers, doctors, and engineers, of course, but also patients, poets, comedians, and more. Our team’s favorite stories from those shows land on our weekly podcast. Some of the stories are heartbreaking, others are hilarious. They're all true and all very personal.
Scroll down to learn more about our work, including educational programming that aims to bring the power of science storytelling to all.
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After giving birth to her second child, Julie Raskin doesn’t know how to handle his constant crying and need to nurse, and as a new immigrant and surprise cancer patient, Emmanuel Paul navigates the complexities of the US healthcare system.
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Join us for an evening of true, personal stories about how science leads us to change, grow, and evolve.
An evening of stories about trying something new to learn something more.
The Story Collider is delighted to partner with Boise State University and share stories from their Computer Science students.
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Each year, we help hundreds of STEM professionals and science enthusiasts learn to use the power of storytelling to enhance their scholarly communication, classroom teaching, public engagement, advocacy work, and more.
From guest lectures and keynote addresses to weekly seminar series to two-day retreats, our educational programming can be offered in online, hybrid, and in-person formats and customized to fit your schedule and goals.
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After giving birth to her second child, Julie Raskin doesn’t know how to handle his constant crying and need to nurse, and as a new immigrant and surprise cancer patient, Emmanuel Paul navigates the complexities of the US healthcare system.
Eva Chebishev gets voted “Most Organized” in first grade and struggles to fit in with her peers, and Morgan Roberts is worried about how people will see her if she enters a high school math competition.
When Evelyn Valdez-Ward discovers that she's undocumented, she fears her dreams of becoming a scientist are over, and Samuel Achilefu's experiences growing up during the Nigerian Civil War inspire his passion for science.
As a zoo volunteer, Lisa Yeager adores sharing her love of the wild, but one zoo patron is ruining that for her, and Anna yearns to be a scientist, but her strict mormon family doesn’t want her to become one.
When Saloni Singh’s mother is diagnosed with terminal cancer, Saloni is unexpectedly shoved into the role of caregiver and matriarch, and after her deaf mother has several strokes and begins experiencing hallucinations, Michelle Antonucci struggles to get her mom the care she needs.
When Julie Carrick Dalton goes to check on her bees one day, she notices something isn’t right, and Jon Schulz thinks rescuing a neglected apiary is the perfect opportunity to expand his beekeeping business.
When Cailin Gallinger struggles with her gender identity in college, her volunteer position in a plant lab becomes a lifeline, and in the midst of homelessness and abuse, Rose DF dreams of a life in science.
When Sanjana Murthy misses her grandfather’s funeral, she struggles with the lack of closure, and Paul Barach impulsively decides to walk the Pacific Coast Trail to escape the grief of his girlfriend’s suicide.
When Milly McDermott is 15, she finds a grapefruit-sized tumor growing out of her vagina, and after a guy she was dating tells Dawn Harris she has two vaginas, she can’t help but wonder what is going on down there.
After Fernando Cuevas flunks out of college, he’s worried he’s destined to be stuck at his dead end Best Buy job forever, and when Sonia Rehal’s sister passes from complications caused by the rare disease lipodystrophy, she doesn’t know how to define herself in the absence of her other half.