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Stories from Braden Grant Winners

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Each year, the Stanford Storytelling Project awards Braden Grants to a small number of students 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, as well as teaching, training, and mentorship during the period of the grant (March-December). These are the stories that came out of that process from the 2024 cohort. 

2024 Braden Grant Stories

Click on the images below to hear stories from the 2024 Braden Grant cohort.

Advice from 2024 Grantees
New Flowers 
by Langston Buddenhagen
Hillbilly Highway 
by Viva Donohue
Digital Diagnosis 
by Priyanka Shrestha
Bolt Wars
by Alex Strong
The Voices Before Us
by Natasha Charfauros
A Taste of Tusán
by Jenny Duan
Stanford Stopout by Cassie Mylia-Frances Shaw
The Chaldean Conundrum
by Fadie Arabo

2023 Braden Grant Stories

Listen to 2023 Braden Grant Stories
2023 Braden Grant Stories
Listen to Friends in Liminal Spaces by Anastasia Sotiropoulos
Friends in Liminal Spaces by Anastasia Sotiropoulos
Back to the Garden by Anna McNulty
Listen to Regeneration Pilgrimmage by Alice Grace
Regeneration Pilgrimmage by Alice Grace
Listen to We Are the Voice by Marissa Mengheang
We Are the Voice by Marissa Mengheang
Listen to Back to the Philippines by Kevi Johnson
Back to the Philippines by Kevi Johnson
Listen to La Fiesta and Cosmovisions in Oaxaca by Lizbeth Luevano
La Fiesta and Cosmovisions in Oaxaca by Lizbeth Luevano
Listen to The Power of Banter by Shameeka “Smeek” Wilson
The Power of Banter by Shameeka “Smeek” Wilson