Get a Speaker
Get a Speaker
We have many speakers who are not listed below so please contact us for more information. In order to make stories available to everyone all of our speakers are free; however, donations to cover transportation costs and aid our projects are needed whenever possible.
Please also contact us if you are interested in public speaking and would like to give workshops or tell your story.
Thomas Jeh
Liberian Refugee and long time activist, Thomas connects his life story with American youth in an incredibly inspiring way. He gives new meaning to the word peace and makes it a concept of importance to ordinary teenagers. He is passionate, inspired, and happy to share his life story with High Schools, Colleges, and Communities.
Katelin Wilton
Katelin is in her second year at Hampshire College where she is concentrating in studies of the Global South, subjectivity and state. Her passion for traveling and learning about distinctly different areas of the world began as a young child when she traveled around Mexico for five months at age eight. She became connected to Africa when she spent six months abroad during her junior year of high school in Ghana where she was accepted into a local family, she returned to them this summer when she volunteered for an organization, in the Ghanaian community that had adopted her, working with PLWAs and an AIDS orphan outreach program. Alongside this work she conducted a project, in conjunction with Kukummi, interviewing of Ghanaians of many ages and backgrounds about their life stories. She is currently editing the video footage of these interviews and designing workshops that revolve around these life stories as a way to learn about life in Africa. She has presented recently to middle school, high school and college audiences. Her related projects have included acting as research assistant in interviewing Tibetans living in exile in India in 2004, conducting a high school senior project on the avenues of implementing human rights through a women’s NGO at the United Nations, community service and travel through The Experiment in International Living in Thailand.
Nicole le Roux
South African by birth, Nicole has long been inspired by the power of storytelling. In her freshman year of High School Nicole founded a non-profit project, Kukummi, which utilizes storytelling in multiple mediums as a way of building bridges between American and African youth. Nicole continues to run Kukummi working with youth members on projects in the United States, Canada, and South America. Nicole has led many workshops, spoken at High Schools and Colleges, and organized numerous campaigns including an international day for Darfur in which tens of thousands of youth from Italy to the United States ran teach ins and fasts to increase awareness about the genocide. Nicole has worked in Kenya on a non-profit magazine, interned at the Marion Institute, and interned at the Committee on Women, Population, and the Environment where she ran DepoDiaries, a project that collected stories of poor women of color who had been negatively affected by dangerous coercive contraceptive use. She continues narrative research on dangerous contraceptives with the Population Development Program. Passionate about the power of stories and real listening, Nicole continues to study and use storytelling performance and writing for social change as a Hampshire College student.