Month: May 2020

How I Made It: Will Rogers


Friday, May 29, 1:45 PST
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This Friday, How I Made It will feature Will Rogers ’09, a multimedia artist and former SSP Senior Producer. Will will share his first movie to hit 100K views on YouTube. It’s a process film Will made during the 2008-2010 recession while living and working at Earthaven Ecovillage in Southern Appalachia.

Each Friday session will feature a different SSP alum or former staffer working as a professional storyteller. That storyteller will pull back the curtain on one of their productions for outlets like Radiolab, 99 Percent Invisible, NPR, National Geographic, Reuters, and more.


How I Made It: Charlie Mintz

Friday, May 22, 1:45 pm PST

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This Friday, HIMI will feature Charlie Mintz, ’10 BA, ’16 MPP, a broadcast journalist and former SSP Senior Producer. Charlie will share his piece Pastor Vinnie’s One-Man Mission To Fight Homelessness. The story, aired on KALW’s Crosscurrents, is about an organization called Mission for the Homeless, and the guy in charge, Vincent Pannizzo, homeless himself, who is also an unordained pastor who preaches in the park on Sundays.

Each Friday session will feature a different SSP alum or former staffer working as a professional storyteller. That storyteller will pull back the curtain on one of their productions for outlets like Radiolab, 99 Percent Invisible, NPR, National Geographic, Reuters, and more.


How I Made It: Simone Stolzoff

Friday, May 15, 1:45 pm PST

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Each Friday at 1:45 pm PST, SSP will host a different Stanford alum working as a professional storyteller who will pull back the curtain on one of their productions for outlets like Radiolab, 99 Percent Invisible, NPR, National Geographic, Reuters, and more.

This Friday, HIMI will feature Simone Stolzoff, Journalism M.A. ‘18, a freelance journalist and writer at IDEO. Simone will share “What Happens When Prisoners Learn to Code?” a piece published in The Atlantic that follows three formerly incarcerated software engineers hired by Slack days before its IPO.


How I Made It

Friday, May 8, 1:45 pm PST

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Each Friday at 1:45 pm PST, SSP will host a different Stanford alum working as a professional storyteller who will pull back the curtain on one of their productions for outlets like Radiolab, 99 Percent Invisible, NPR, National Geographic, Reuters, and more.

Joining us this week is Xandra Clark ’12, playwright, actor, journalist, documentarian, performance-maker, musician, and all-around storyteller. She is the creator/writer/performer of Polylogues, an interview-based solo show about nonmonogamy — and love in all its forms. The show has two sold-out workshop runs at The Tank (2018) and Dixon Place (2019) in NYC. You can watch the trailer for Polylogues at https://www.polyloguesplay.com/trailer.