Mike Gifford
December storyteller Mike Gifford is a proud volunteer at the Leather Archives and Museum and the LGBTQ+ Gerber Hart Library ...
Michelle Young
December storyteller Michelle Young started telling stories and performing as a stand-up comic right before Covid. Post-pandemic, Michelle has performed ...
Jean Kim-Snyder
November storyteller Jean Kim-Snyder is a licensed Trauma Therapist specializing in working with marginalized populations, especially Asian Americans and LGBTQ+ ...
Stan Mitchell
November storyteller Stan Mitchell serves as a Teaching Pastor at The Village in Atlanta, GA. and Austin New Church (UMC) ...
Jennifer Ould
November storyteller Jennifer Ould moved to Chicago from North Carolina 20 years ago and found home here. She has a ...
Vince Amlin
November storyteller Vince Amlin is a writer and pastor of two Chicago churches: Bethany United Church of Christ in Ravenswood ...
Helen Shiller
November storyteller Helen Shiller was the Alderman of the 46th Ward from April 1987 to May 2011. She served as ...
Shandee Ewert
October storyteller Shandee Ewert is a Minnesota native, a fast walker, and a nacho aficionado. Recently, she made a new ...
Zach Benak
October storyteller Zach Benak has lived in Chicago for the last nine years. His personal essays have been published in ...
Jackie Kaplan-Perkins
October storyteller Jackie Kaplan-Perkins is the daughter of immigrants and grew up on the Northside of Chicago in the late ...
Jordan Francisco
October storyteller Jordan Francisco is a first-generation Filipino-American and a native of the Chicagoland area. He is the marketing officer ...
Delilah Orizaba
October storyteller Delilah Orizaba is a full-time therapist and a part-time comic. She’s performed at The Future of Comedy Festival ...
Wendy Cole
September storyteller Wendy Cole has lived in the Chicago area for nearly half her life. A longtime journalist, she was ...
Ken Mejia Beal
September storyteller Ken Mejia Beal is a writer/politico/ and activist. Ken started his career as an HIV/AIDS activist on the ...
Clay Lawhead
September storyteller Clay Lawhead hails from the town of Peachtree City, Georgia, in which there are no peach trees. Clay ...
Chi Williams
September storyteller Chi Williams has loved stories for as long as she can remember, and she suspects that nothing is ...
Ernest Holden
September storyteller Ernest Holden has been a performer for as long as he can remember. He has spoken his truth ...
Brad Berlage
September storyteller Brad Berlage is originally from the Washington, DC area but is proud to call Chicago home. A former ...