Young Storytellers

Young Storytellers equips Young people to be the driving force of their own narratives. We're passionate about bringing people together and creating stories to raise the voices of those who don't often get heard. We believe that when a Young person understands the power of their own story-made of their unique background, culture, race, gender, sexuality, immigration status, geographic location, and economic status-it creates a more empathetic and equitable future for everyone. We raise voices, one story at a time.young Storytellers completed two semesters, totaling 115 sessions of its youth development programs during 2023. Young Storytellers coordinated and administered their programs successfully in over 70 public elementary, middle, and high schools across los angeles county. All programs were provided in person during spring 2023 and fall 2023 sessions. Approximately 4,000 children participated as Storytellers in our in-school programs which include our flagship script to stage program, collaborative script to stage program, middle school stories program, high school stories program, and wbd story lab in partnership with warner bros. Discovery, dc comics, and lausd. Young Storytellers also created and produced original curriculum for at&t's the achievery, a free digital learning platform for students and teachers nationwide.approximately 309 volunteer mentors participated in Young Storytellers programs during 2023 and these mentors volunteered over 4,017 hours of their time. In addition, approximately 237 actors volunteered at in-school big shows, as performers of the student's stories, donating an additional 711 hours of their time.during 2023, Young Storytellers published multiple handbooks and workbooks based on each of their program offerings. These were distributed to the local communities across los angeles served by the Young Storytellers programs. Young Storytellers also created and published a tool-kit for the script to stage program with online handbooks and training videos for use outside of los angeles.