Overview

Storybuilders is based in Boston, Massachusetts. We offer consulting in basic digital audio and video production to individuals and organizations, and we specialize in 2-3 day group digital storytelling trainings, which organizations often use for team-building and for in-house creation of training and promotional materials. We work both locally and nationally. You can reach us via the contact page or by sending an email to dush@storybuilders.org.

Staff and Associates

Director, Lisa Dush
Lisa has spent the last ten years teaching writing, literature and digital composition courses at the college level. She is completing her Ph.D. dissertation at UMass Amherst and is on the faculty in the Writing and Humanistic Studies department at MIT.

Danielle Martin
Danielle supports the development of online collaborative social networks of digital storytelling facilitators at StoresforChange.net, conducts train-the-trainer digital storytelling workshops for massIMPACT, and works to bring new programs and collaborations to community organizations. She'll soon be a Masters candidate at MIT's Department of Urban Studies and Planning, but for now she blogs at VerdeSmoke.com.

Mia Olivero
Mia is a graduate of the Year Up academic and technical training program, and is working toward a career in the film industry. Mia does freelance graphic design and video editing work, and dedicates her free time to serving the youth-run group NAGLY, creating her own digital productions, and, like many other young adults, updating her MySpace page.

Affiliated Organizations

Creative Narrations, based in Seattle, WA, and directed by Natasha Freidus, collaborates with Storybuilders and does multimedia and storytelling work to build communities and neighborhoods.

Stories for Change
Stories for Change is an online digital storytelling portal, a place to post and watch stories and to gather resources for teaching the digital storytelling process.