Testimonials
This project and others like it are an opportunity for us all… We learn from one another. We come to understand and love one another. We begin to overcome prejudice and callousness, and we become fuller human beings.
This project has totally transformed my life, in every way. I now have a career path and a portfolio for my college applications. I’m not as shy as I was, and I can speak in front of a group – even a group of adults!
We are so grateful and honored that our son has been part of this project. It has brought out all of his best qualities and changed how he sees himself and his opportunities in life.
The video and timeline that you created for us really help to tell our story. I use it all the time in my PR work.
Story for All is skillfully supporting us to document and share the story of building school health services in Alameda County in a way that is accessible and engaging to our partners. Their experience managing collaborative projects, capturing content, and creating engaging ways to share it is providing critical support to the project.
Policy and Planning Coordinator, Center for Healthy Schools and Communities
The Urban Agriculture Oral History Project is a relevant and timely effort in this era of rapid urban, environmental, and social change. Story For All is the first to tell the story of urban ag in our communities from the inside out, bringing otherwise unheard voices to the forefront of this movement.
Architectural Historian/Preservation Planner and project volunteer
The Griots exhibit has importantly contributed to a shift of focus in our work in public education, from a laser focus on new standards to a laser focus on insuring that new standards are applied to assure that each and every student achieve their potential. Most importantly, the students we have chronically and persistently failed in public education have been raised up through your important collaborative work. Thank you.
I felt that I have had a distorted view about African Americans. I was very impressed with the young men who possess hope and think positively about their identity and community. I had assumed that African Americans were depressed, hated each other, and had no hope. I have now changed my point of view and expect the bright future.
I feel hope. I have never seen someone who looks like me represented in this way.
This course supports our company’s culture and helps us all be more influential and connect with others.
The SHINE forces me to confront my own truth, beauty and prejudices as a Black man regarding boys and men of color. Out of this confrontation and the multisensory immersion it offers, I then can love and be loved in a different way, and this way then drives the policy, programs, practice and people transformation, which must occur forthwith.”
