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Andrea Marcos, Membership and Development Associate

We’ve said it before and we’re going to say it again…

Stories are power!

The Housing Alliance is excited to announce two graduates of our Emerging Advocates Program were chosen to participate in The Moth’s storytelling workshops coming up later this month. Congrats to Faye Johnson and Kirk McClain! We know how awesome you are, soon The Moth will too. 

The Moth is a non-profit organization dedicated to the art and craft of storytelling. The group presents storytelling events across the United States and offers a national public radio show, The Moth Radio Hour.

The Moth is partnering with Seattle University’s Project on Family Homelessness to offer two 8-hour workshops on the theme, “Home: Lost and Found” for people with personal stories about homelessness. Participants will learn about storytelling craft and get a chance to refine their own personal stories with storytelling experts.

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Faye (second from the left) during a 2014 Emerging Advocates Program session.

Faye and Kirk went through our 2014 Emerging Advocates Program, where we spent six weeks together building skills and power for people directly experiencing housing instability or homelessness to advocate for positive policy change. When Faye called me up a few days ago to let me know she got into the workshop, I was so excited and grateful to be connected to such amazing leaders who are continually working for positive change in our communities (we could write blog post after blog post about what EAP graduates are up to). 

“I want to be able to help others out of where I had been for the majority of my life. I see the impact that I can make by me telling my story.” said Faye. “Because if I could tell my story then the person who is listening could get a feeling of hope.”

Then the next day I got an email from Kirk. He was accepted too. Some of you may know Kirk already or have seen the interview he did with our executive director Rachael Myers at the news site ThinkProgress.

Or maybe you read the blog post he wrote, reflecting on his first experience at our Conference on Ending Homelessness last year.

If you’re at Housing and Homelessness Advocacy Day next week, tell Faye and Kirk congratulations! They’ll both be there bringing their stories and leadership to meetings with their district’s elected officials advocating for affordable housing policy and ending homelessness.

I’m going to say it one more time, “Stories are power!”
 


 

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