Some would say that storytelling is what makes us human. In this episode, we are going to hear some great stories. We are heading to Oak Hill Correctional Facility, where the University of Wisconsin Odyssey Beyond Bars Project offers storytelling workshops each semester for incarcerated students who are in the English 101 course. This is UW-Madison’s first face-to-face credit-bearing course inside any Wisconsin state prison since 1917. We will hear from Peter Moreno, the founder and Director of the program, Kevin Mullen, who designed the curriculum and teaches the course, and Mark Español, a former student. And, we get to hear the story Mark told at the English 101 graduation inside Oak Hill!
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The Power of Indigenous Knowledge (with Marvin Defoe)
The Power of Planting Seeds (with Margaret Franchino)
The Power of Untold Stories (with Rachel Monaco-Wilcox)
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The Power of Listening (with Arijit Sen)
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