Braden Storytelling Grant

This story is about how traditional Chinese music travels across time, distance, and migration, carried by the people who choose to keep it alive. Through the stories of two musicians and producer Rosina Lin's own journey as a listener, it explores memory, identity, and what it means to belong. Original scoring by Rosina Lin. Produced with support from the Braden Storytelling Grant and the Stanfor...

Why do Cambodian American stories disappear—both from family albums and from school curricula? In this documentary, producer Rani Chor follows one community’s effort to reclaim its history, asking what happens to identity, power, and belonging when a people’s past is left untaught. In California’s first model curriculum for Cambodian Americans, we find these lost stories. Produced with support fro...

This episode follows livermush from producer Ana Gray's family farm to a North Carolina factory, told through family memory, labor, and survival. What begins as a search for a childhood food becomes a story about inheritance, care, and quiet resistance. Produced with support from the Braden Storytelling Grant and the Stanford Storytelling Project. Music: Free Music Archies Eirik finbak, Dear Whisk...

What does it take to conserve a forest? Most people think about the Amazon Rainforest when they think of Brazil. But in fact, most Brazilians live in the Atlantic Forest. Despite being a patchwork of what it once was, the Atlantic Forest is incredibly resilient, biodiverse, and crucial to life. In this episode, we get to hear from some of the people restoring and protecting this forest before it i...

After her mother’s passing, Kristine abandoned the Bulgarian folk dancing she’d grown up with. Now, through conversations with dancers across generations, she’s searching for what she lost — and questioning what it really means to belong to a culture. Produced with support from the Braden Storytelling Grant and the Stanford Storytelling Project. Music: Vocals from Maria Belekova, singing a mix of...

Producer West Mulholland explores generational silence within the Japanese American community. A holder of heritage and a carrier of stories that are not his own, Mulholland searches for what it means to narrate an inherited silence near the desert fences of Manzanar, an American Incarceration Camp and living National Historic Site. Produced with support from the Braden Storytelling Grant and the...

In this episode, producer Alana Esposito travels to Montana to learn more about the iconic American Buffalo and its complicated history in Yellowstone National Park.  Produced with support from the Braden Storytelling Grant and the Stanford Storytelling Project.   Music from BlueDotSessions: Pigpaddle Creek Vengeful On Early Light Sprig Leaf   Interviewees: Román Sanchez Dallas Gudgell Justine San...

Each year, the Stanford Storytelling Project awards Braden Grants to support the research, writing, and production of audio documentaries. The aim of the program is to help students learn how to tell powerful, research-driven stories based on testimony they gather through interviews, research, or oral history archives. Grantees receive up to $2,500, along with teaching, training, and mentorship fo...

How Patsy Cline shifted the country music industry--and a whole country's idea of femininity. Interviewees: Ellis Nasser Margaret Jones Sources: Country Music USA by Bill C. Malone Creating Country Music by Richard A. Peterson Selling Tradition: Appalachia and the Construction of an American Folk by Jane E. Song Catchers, Ballad Makers, and New Social Historians: The Historiography of Appalachian...

"New Flowers" explores the history of Addis Ababa's Piassa's neighborhood: its birth, destruction, and what sense of home remains. Includes interviews with Paul Buddenhagen, Sine Berhanu, Messay Gesesse Mikael Shebele, Dany Dereje, and Yalew Berhanu. Music: Mulatu Astatke: "Tezeta," "Tension," "Yekeremo Sew," "Yegelle Tezeta" Daniele Serra

Digital diagnosis explores how telehealth is changing the physician patient relationship. Through interviews with both physicians and patients we uncover where telehealth shines and where it falls short, ultimately getting to the heart of what medicine is and how we can use technology in a way that puts people first.   Interviewees:Sarah Grace LeBaronLyle Joyce, M.D.Randi ZellerResearch:● https://...

Climbers modify the rock to climb safely, leaving permanent anchors for catching falls. This was not always the practice, and its early implementation lead to a period of conflict in the climbing community when ethics were in flux. Climbing has solved this dilemma, and can show the world how to walk reframe the line between environmental sustainability and land use.    Name and title of interviewe...

A California-born CHamoru woman’s personal journey discovering how CHamoru became endangered and how Guam’s island community was restoring the language. Show Notes: Interviews included Antoinette McDaniel, Aunt and Professor studying Chamoru culture; Mark Mendiola, Director of Institutional Advancement University of Guam; Michelle Chrisostomo, Founder of Guahan Sustainable Culture; Anna Marie Arce...

This episode explores the story of Lima’s Tusán—Peruvian Chinese—community, examining their influence on Peruvian culture and identity through Chifas, restaurants serving Peruvian-Chinese cuisine. From the history of Chinese immigration to Peru to today’s Barrio Chino (Chinatown), I consider what it means to assimilate, belong, and transform.   Featured Interviewees:● Rodrigo Campos, Founder of Tu...

Fadie Arabo's story is about uncovering the Chaldean identity: What it means to him and how it has changed since coming to Stanford. People interviewed:Dr. Dean Winslow: Medical doctorTerezsa Arabo: Young ChaldeanRami Sarafa: Harvard BusinessKen Alyass: Harvard HistorianZiyad Gawis: El-Cajon ChaldeanZena Roumaya: MotherCal Abbo: Chaldean News EditorJohn Kurikuz: Chaldean Stanford Alumni   Research...

What does it mean to come face to face with failure as a student at an 'elite' school? What advice do alumni, advisors, and professionals have to share about wellness, academic competition, and perfectionism? And is there a secret to surviving in today's age of a dangerous productivity culture? Can you come back from burnout? Tune in :) - Maija Cruz - Cari Costanzo - Thomas Curran - 10% Happier Po...

In this story about connection outside the bounds of physical space, time, and life experience, an unlikely friendship buds during uncertain times.      

In an effort to reconnect with her Cambodian identity, Marissa Mengheang explores the experiences of Cambodian genocide survivors, including her own grandparents. But her search for knowledge takes to her to an unexpected place. This episode contains references to genocide, murder, and human rights violations.

“Back to the Garden” tells the story of an organic farming couple, Jose and Rich, who are committed to sustaining the environment and who also don't believe in climate change. This episode explores how that dissonance might be possible, the power of language, and whether or not the term "climate change" will help save the planet.

Despite 13+ years of a fractured relationship between mother and daughter, this episode journeys through the past, present, and future, highlighting one unlikely solution that changed the trajectory of a family and its generations.

Kevi grew up surrounded by Filipino caregivers--many of whom had to leave their families in the Philippines to work in the US. As she starts to unpack the histories of the people who raised her, Kevi embarks on a journey of discovery that reveals the dark history of how the US caregiving industry became dependent on the separation of Filipina workers from their families.

This intro episode of the Regeneration Pilgrimage series is about a journey of self discovery that took place in nature-based off grid communities in Portugal and Spain. This episode is an intimate, deeply personal story of the month long solo-pilgrimage that your host, Alice Grace, set out on in the Summer of 2023. This is her story of finding healing and the secrets to living in alignment with p...

This episode explores the different futures made possible when you balance narratives of dispossession with narratives of joy--and how we see that manifest in Oaxaca's celebrations and the different ways that community members seek to make themselves visible.        

Each year, the Stanford Storytelling Project awards Braden Grants to support the research, writing, and production of audio documentaries. The aim of the program is to help students learn how to tell powerful, research-driven stories based on testimony they gather through interviews, research, or oral history archives. Grantees receive up to $2,500, along with teaching, training, and mentorship fo...

Each year, the Stanford Storytelling Project awards Braden Grants to support the research, writing, and production of audio documentaries. The aim of the program is to help students learn how to tell powerful, research-driven stories based on testimony they gather through interviews, research, or oral history archives. Grantees receive up to $2,500, along with teaching, training, and mentorship fo...