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Response to Request For Qualifications
Name of Organization: StoryCenter
Contact: Andrea Spagat, Director of Programs
1442A Walnut Street #417 Berkeley CA 94709 USA
StoryCenter is a non-profit operating since 1993 - average number of employees - 7
The education, training, and qualifications of the individual, or if a firm, its key
employees:
We are including the CV’s of the two key facilitators at StoryCenter and a sole source letter that
describes our unique ability to do this type of work. The two key facilitators are Executive
Director Joe Lambert and Director of Programs Andrea Spagat.
A list of recent projects and the names of up to five clients who may be contacted,
including at least two for whom services were rendered during the preceding year:
Nā Leo Kāne Digital Storytelling
Service dates - Various contracts between June 2023 and November 2024
Contact: Rose Marie Vergara
Hawai‘i DVFR Coordinator
Maternal & Child Health Branch
Hawai‘i State Department of Health
Office: (808) 733-4056
rosemarie.vergara@doh.hawaii.gov
Endangered Languages Project - Virtual facilitation of workshop with 11 language scholars and
activists participating from the United States and various other countries from North America,
Europe, Africa and Asia.
Service dates - Nov-Dec 2024
Contact: Dr. Anna Belew, Executive Director
Endangered Languages Project
5441 S. Macadam Ave., #4178
Portland, OR 97239
(503) 473-3716
anna@endangeredlanguages.com
Public Health Institute/Mixteco Indigenous Organizing Project/Líderes Campesinas
Impacts Of Climate Change On Indigenous Farmworkers: Digital Storytelling In Purépecha,
Zapoteco And Mixteco
Service dates - January-October, 2023
Isabella Kaser, MPH (she/her)
Climate Resilience Project Manager
Tracking California
(510) 303-2373 (cell)
IKaser@phi.org
Hispanic Scholars Program Digital Storytelling Workshop to create stories about the impact of
HSP on the lives of HSP Board members and other stakeholders. Stories will be posted on their
new website, which is in the process of transformation, in the near future.
Service dates - October 2024
Contact: Jorge Juan Rodríguez V. Ph.D.
Associate Director for Strategic Programming
Hispanic Scholars Program
jrodriguez@hispanicsummerprogram.org
Experience and professional qualifications relevant to the project type. Identify any
proposed sub-consultants or partners and your experience collaborating with them on
similar projects or project elements (per expertise list above).
Please see attached CV’s for Andrea Spagat and Joe Lambert
Past performance on projects of similar scope for public agencies or private industry.
Provide examples of projects you have worked on in Hawaiʻi, and Hawaiʻi County.
Provide examples of other projects of similar size and scope completed by your firm or
proposed sub-consultants. Please provide hyperlinks to any of these examples that may
be accessed via the internet.
Nā Leo Kāne Digital Storytelling
Facilitating digital storytelling workshops and training facilitators for the Nā Leo Kāne initiative, a
project of Hawai‘i Department of Public Health, Maternal and Child Health Branch.
This project consists of a series of in person and virtual workshops that have occurred since
2023. Initially, staff from the Hawai‘i Department of Public Health and members of the Nā Leo
Kāne initiative (NLK) traveled to Washington DC to a public workshop that was facilitated by
StoryCenter staff in June of 2023. The NLK initiative is focused on expanding conversations
about what it means to be a man. After the workshop experience in DC, NLK expressed interest
in continued workshops and training with the objective of building institutional capacity.
In December of 2023, StoryCenter provided initial in-person story facilitation services in Oahu
where we facilitated a workshop with the support of the NLK participants who had traveled to
DC. The next step was a virtual facilitator training workshop that preceded an in-person
workshop in June of 2024 in Kauai that was led by NLK participants with mentorship from
StoryCenter staff. The most recent activity that has been implemented is a virtual train the
trainer in November 2024 with additional activities to be determined based on the interest and
capacity of NLK participants.
Content included in workshops and trainings includes: how to identify a narrative that each
participant feels comfortable sharing, creative and emotional support for developing a personal
narrative, options for narrative structure, maintaining agency of the storyteller, creating audio
recordings of stories (voiceovers), developing visual narratives and editing videos with the
voiceovers.
Workshops were planned collaboratively with State Department of Health staff and Nā Leo Kāne
leadership to make sure that cultural practices were incorporated into the workshops as a way
of fortifying socio-emotional and spiritual support in the workshop.
Impacts Of Climate Change On Indigenous Farmworkers: Digital Storytelling In
Purépecha, Zapoteco And Mixteco
Public Health Institute, Mixteco Indigenous Community Organizing Project and Líderes
Campesinas.
StoryCenter has collaborated on a number of projects with the Public Health Institute’s Tracking
California Program. The most recent project, in 2023, was focused on creating stories about the
impacts of climate change on farmworkers. Farmworkers made stories about their working
conditions in the fields in Spanish and in their Indigenous languages (Mixteco, Zapoteco and
Purépecha). The stories reflected the challenges and resilience of the farmworkers and
centered the native languages of the participants that are often dismissed and undervalued.
This was a hybrid workshop that included in-person and virtual components.
The workshop was facilitated entirely in Spanish with some translation for two participants
whose dominant languages were Mixteco and Purépecha. We met in person with participants
for one day to share stories and then completed the script development, voiceover recordings
and video editing through individual meetings most of which happened online. The stories were
translated into Indigenous languages by the storytellers who also guided the placement of
subtitles in the stories.
As noted in the description at the link above, the stories were used to support efforts to make
changes to public policy that would improve working conditions.
Endangered Languages Project
The Endangered Languages Project contracted StoryCenter to facilitate a virtual workshop with
11 language scholars and activists participating from the United States and various other
countries from North America, Europe, Africa and Asia. The stories will be used by the scholars
and activists to further their work. Upload to a website forthcoming.
The AIRE Stories Project
The Public Health Institute’s Tracking California Project contracted StoryCenter to implement
The AIRE Stories Project. Storytellers came from local environmental justice organizations in 6
sites across California who were leading community air monitoring efforts. This was a virtual
workshop that took place in the midst of Pandemic restrictions in 2020.
StoryCenter Public Place Based and Facilitator Training Workshops
In addition to our custom work, some of which is described above, StoryCenter runs a number
of online public workshops throughout the year. Two of particular interest to this project are our
Digital Storytelling Online Certificate Program for individuals who are interested in developing
their skill set to facilitate all aspects of digital storytelling and our Stories In Motion workshop
which focuses on place-based storytelling and is taught online and in person.
In 2024, we had 51 people register and complete the Digital Storytelling Online Certificate
Program and 34 individuals register and complete the Stories In Motion workshop.
Experience and Professional Qualifications
StoryCenter implements digital storytelling facilitation and training with staff and contractors who
have worked with us extensively in the past. The CV’s of the two StoryCenter staff who are likely
to implement these workshops are included.
Capacity to accomplish the work in the required time.
March - June
At the moment, StoryCenter has capacity for 4 additional online workshops in the March-June
period and up to 5 days of travel for in-person workshops.
1442A Walnut Street #417
Berkeley, CA 94709 USA
510-548-2065 phone
510-225-9616 fax
info@storycenter.org
www.storycenter.org
Co-Executive Director
Joe Lambert
Co-Executive Director
Walt Jacobs
Silence Speaks Director
Amy Hill
Public Workshops Director
Robert Kershaw
Western Regional Director
Andrea Spagat
Rocky Mountain/Midwest
Regional Director
Daniel Weinshenker
Board of Directors
Walt Jacobs
Nikki Yeboah
Jane Van Galen
Brandi Shah
Janet Ferguson
Maritza de la Trinidad
Nina Shapiro Perl
Joe Lambert
Legal Name: StoryCenter
Federal Tax ID 94-2660844
January 14, 2025
Sole Source Statement
StoryCenter
To whom it may concern:
Presented below is our statement regarding our unique status in the field
of Digital Storytelling.
StoryCenter (formerly the Center for Digital Storytelling) initiated this field
of practice from the University of California, Berkeley in 1993. Since that
time, StoryCenter (SC) has worked with some 400 colleges and
universities, school districts, adult education groups, and youth
development, and after-school programs in all 50 states in the country,
and 62 nations across the globe. SC is acknowledged as the U.S. and
international innovator and trailblazer in public health, social service,
advocacy, and educational uses of Digital Storytelling.
We are seen as experts in leading workshops in Digital Storytelling for
educators based on these fundamental elements:
● Capacity Building— All of the institutions where we have implemented
advanced training modules have sustained their Digital Storytelling work
with our support, and have generated a functioning community of practice
around Digital Storytelling. SC methods and our methodology are proven
to assist public health and social service agencies and government
organizations, university and community college systems, and
community-based organizations large and small, to successfully
integrate this practice across departments and campuses, with ongoing
implementation and training support for staff, educators, organizers and
advocacy groups.
● Transformational Experiences— Decades of experience have shaped
our abilities to draw powerful stories from anyone and create a space for
participants to fully engage with their own content, the technology, and
their colleagues. Surveys of workshop participants in our work in higher
education have received 98% positive feedback over the last 20 years.
● Ethics – SC is the recognized field leader in the development of
participatory media ethics, having evolved guidelines and
presented at numerous national and international conferences on the
subject. In this era of experiential learning, students, faculty, and staff are
often asked to participate in projects that connect with the public. This
work hinges on a keen awareness of how to engage in ethically sound,
and professionally appropriate ways. SC offers both U.S.-based and
internationally based approaches to these ethical concerns
● Cultural Competency— Our work with local and national projects in
social justice, civil rights, refugee concerns, and immigration positions SC
to discuss and model cultural sensitivity in our workshops.
ANDREA I. SPAGAT, MS
Oakland, CA
(415) 612-7474 ● andrea@storycenter.org
● Comprehensive experience developing and facilitating participatory, community arts and educational programs,
workshops, trainings and distribution activities
● Extensive experience developing, managing and implementing successful personal storytelling workshops across
demographic groups using a framework of cultural humility and awareness of the legacies of violence and
oppression for workshop participants.
● Trauma informed approach to planning and facilitating workshops
Professional Experience
Western Region Director (June 2009 – Present)
StoryCenter (formerly Center for Digital Storytelling)
Berkeley, CA
● Implement and manage all aspects of digital storytelling workshop planning, facilitation process and distribution
strategies.
● Support for distribution of digital stories by StoryCenter collaborators.
● Develop relationships and programs with partners including non-profit organizations and public agencies
● Develop and teach advanced digital storytelling facilitation training curriculum
● Write proposals.
● Supervise and train contract facilitators.
● Develop metrics for assessing workshops and strategies for ensuring successful execution of workshops.
Education Director (June 2006 – June 2009)
Center for Digital Storytelling
Berkeley, CA
● Systematize and extend digital storytelling programming provided to educators in K-12, afterschool and adult
education settings.
● Teach digital storytelling workshops (including Spanish language workshops).
● Recruit, train and supervise instructors for specialized workshops for educators.
● Supervise education program interns.
● Develop monitoring and evaluation methods for workshops.
● Develop outreach strategy for educators.
● Write proposals to fund work with collaborating organizations.
Program Director (2002 – 2006)
Center for Human Development
San Francisco, CA
● Responsible for directing CHD’s Youth Striving for Excellence program, a substance abuse and violence prevention
program for young people at risk of dropping out of school.
● Site management for CHD’s San Francisco office.
● Develop programs, write grants and oversee development of curriculum.
● Develop a multi-media based digital story curriculum.
● Teach digital storytelling workshops nationally to teachers, parents and students.
● Facilitate youth groups and hire, train and supervise staff that work with youth.
Violence Prevention Initiative (VPI) Academic Fellow (1999 - 2001)
Epidemiology and Prevention for Injury Control (EPIC) Branch
California Department of Health Services (DHS)
Sacramento, CA
● Principal investigator for “Needs Assessment of Aftercare Services for Post-Commitment Latino Youth.” Utilized
in-depth interviews for needs assessment. Developed research questions, designed all aspects of
quasi-ethnographic study, collected and analyzed data.
● Conducted legislative research and analyzed legislative bills for EPIC. Participated in VPI policy meetings.
Attended youth violence related legislative hearings at the Capitol.
● Developed curriculum and facilitated training for home visitors on Domestic Violence and Latino Families.
Andrea Spagat - CV July 2023 1/2
Publications
Kylene Guse, Andrea Spagat, Amy Hill, Andrea Lira, Stephen Heathcock & Melissa Gilliam (2013) Digital
Storytelling: A Novel Methodology for Sexual Health Promotion, American Journal of Sexuality Education, 8:4,
213-227, DOI: 10.1080/15546128.2013.838504
Selected Presentations
“Protegiendo Las Vidas De Los Trabajadores Agrícolas Indígenas: Historias Sobre Los Impactos En La Salud De Los
Incendios Forestales Y El Calor Extremo.” Presenter at the 11th International Digital Storytelling Conference. Online
event June 23, 2023.
“Personal Stories and Advocacy: Stories for Change” Presenter at Mt. St. Mary’s Women’s Leadership Conference.
September 17, 2022.
“Digital Storytelling for Reflection and Solidarity” Presenter at Listening, Learning, and Leading: Anti-Racism and the
California Crisis Continuum of Care Conference. Online Event June 16 and 17, 2021.
“Resilience and Empathy Through Personal Storytelling” Concurrent session at International Webinar Series on
Students' Well-being - Webinar on Character and Moral Education. Online event organized by Centre for Advancement
in Inclusive and Special Education, Faculty of Education, The University of Hong Kong & The Asia-Pacific Network
for Moral Education. May 15, 2021.
“Digital Storytelling for Educators” Alameda County Office of Education. Hayward, CA. March, 2007.
“Harm Reduction in School-based Programs.” Panel member at the 4th Annual National Harm Reduction Coalition
Conference. Seattle, WA. December, 2002.
“Preventing Violence in High Risk Populations: Response of Aftercare Services to the Post-Incarceration Experiences
of Young Latino Men.” Poster presentation at the 129th Annual Meeting of the American Public Health Association.
Atlanta, GA. October, 2001.
“Questions Raised by an Exploratory Qualitative Study on Post-Commitment Experiences of Latino Youth at High
Risk for Violence.” Oral presentation at the Fifteenth Annual California Conference on Childhood Injury Control. San
Diego, CA. September, 2001.
“Juvenile Incarceration.” Guest lecture for Violence: Causes, Effects, Solutions class at UCSF Medical School. San
Francisco, CA. February, 2001.
“Human Rights and Violence Prevention: Towards a Global Perspective” with Carolina Guzman. Oral presentation at
the Violence Prevention Initiative Conference. Sacramento, CA. November, 2000
Education
Continuing and Vocational Education, MS (1999) with an emphasis on adult basic education and literacy
University of Wisconsin, Madison
International Relations, BA (1992)
Spanish, BA (1992)
University of California, Davis
Andrea Spagat - CV July 2023 2/2
Curriculum Vitae
Joe Lambert
c/o StoryCenter
1442A Walnut#417
Berkeley, CA 94709
Professional Experience:
1993- Present
Center for Digital Storytelling/StoryCenter – Founder, Executive Director – with his collaborators,
Lambert originated the methods and practice of the Digital Storytelling Workshop, a combination of
creative writing, the personal archival material, and digital media production. From 1994 to the present,
CDS has disseminated their methods in 92 countries, 22 languages, and all 50 US states. Lambert and
CDS has taught over 3000 workshops across the U.S. and internationally, and developed large and small
scale programs and projects in dozens of different educational, community, artistic and professional
contexts.
Lambert has chaired 7 Digital Storytelling Festivals and 11 International Digital Storytelling
Conferences in 9 countries, delivered over 100 conference presentations, keynotes, lectures and papers.
He has innovated the practice of Digital Storytelling, by evolving dozens of new programmatic and
curriculum approaches, including numerous place-based processes including Storymapping,
StoryAbroad, URHear, iOStory Walking Story process, and his more recent, Stories-in-Motion. He has
overseen software design and development, and media-production approaches that have also been
disseminated across the world.
Founder, Executive Director - Life on the Water
Lambert and his partners founded this San Francisco contemporary theater company which was
internationally recognized for their efforts in ensemble and solo performance. His artistic collaborators
as a writer, director, and executive producer, included the founding members of the Blue Man Group,
Guillermo Gomez Peña, Terry Allen, Spalding Gray, Jon Sanborn, John O’Neal, Dana Atchley, Max
Roach, Suzan Lori-Parks, Jon Jang, Peter Bergman, and many others. He produced nearly 300 shows,
special events, festivals, conferences, and touring productions. CDS grew out of Life On The Water as a
special project under Lambert’s direction in 1993.
1983-1986 Theater Director, Executive Director, People’s Theater Coalition
PTC was the hub of 19 local multicultural theater companies, including the SF Mime Troupe, A
Traveling Jewish Theater and Teatro Campesino. It operated a theater school that included in its faculty
Bill Irwin and Whoopi Goldberg. Under Lambert’s direction, PTC developed the national political
theater festival, “We Shall Be Heard,” in 1985, coordinated national tours of several Central American
literary and performing artists, and commissioned new work by Teatro Esperanza, Asian American
Theater Company, and the touring production of Minneapolis-based At the Foot of the Mountain.
Publications
Author of the leading textbook in the field, “Digital Storytelling, Capturing Lives, Creating
Community,” on Routledge (4th, 2012, and 5th editions, 2015), through the current 6th Edition, 2021,.
and “Seven Stages: Story and the Human Experience, (2014), both on Digital Diner Press .
In addition to his textbook Lambert has published writing in the Christian Science Monitor, High
Performance, and Digital Storytelling, Mediatized Stories, Knut Lundby, 2008; Story Circle: Digital
Storytelling Around the World, John Hartley, Kelly McWilliam, 2009; Digital Storytelling in Higher
Education; Grete Jamissen, Pip Hardy, Yngve Nordkvelle, 2017; Digital Storytelling: Form and Content,
Mark Dunford, Tricia Jenkins, 2018
He has also developed the manual for the workshops, the Digital Storytelling Cookbook, and was author
of the 1998 White Paper for the Institute for the Future on Storytelling and New Media. He has
developed curriculum for Kodak, Apple Computer, the Canadian Film Centre, New Media Consortium,
the Art Institute of Pittsburgh, and numerous other organizations.
Digital Media Production Credits
Producer/Conceptual Artist, Digital Mural Project, 1998; Production Manager/Web Designer Jon
Sanborn’s “Paul is Dead”, On Lok Senior Services Training Kiosk (1996), Big Basin State Park Kiosk
(1997), The Foundry Website (project of SFGate.com) (1997), California Arts Council conference
websites (1997-1998), Apple Computer (Higher Ed Curriculum, Final Cut, Quicktime, Filemaker,
iMovie launch, 1999), New Media Consortium conference cd-rom (1998), Museum of the American
Indian-Smithsonian Institution films (2005), Storymapping.org Website (2007), Marin Farm Stories
(2007), SF Dept. of Health (2009), Cal Permanency(2011), Noyce Leadership Institute (2012),
California Listens (2016-2019), Reckoning with Racism in Nursing (2021-2022)
Clients Served
Lambert has led projects and workshops with clients that have included the Kellogg Foundation, Noyce
Leadership Institute, Australian Center for the Moving Image (Melbourne), Hewlett Packard, California
Arts Council, Ford, the New Media Consortium, the British Broadcasting Corporation, Tealac-Not
(Dutch Educational Television), Delta Garden (Sweden), Proseed (Tokyo), Buhl Advertising
(Copenhagen), Institute for the Future, Proctor and Gamble, Apple, Kansas City Symphony, Museu da
Pessoa (Sao Paulo, Brazil), Akademie Remscheid, JFC(Germany), National Gallery of Art, several
dozen Universities including Cal State Monterey, Cal Poly Pomona, UCLA, USC, San Francisco State,
Colgate, UC Berkeley, Ohio State, Iowa, Williams, Middlebury, Emerson, Simmons, U. of Houston, U.
of Central Florida, Southern Illinois, U. of Maryland, West of England, Busan University (Korea),
University of Minas Gerais, Brazil, and numerous school districts including San Francisco, San Mateo,
Santa Clara, Oakland, Albany, Poway, Mendocino in California, Flagler, FL, Stone County, KY, Athens,
AL, and New Orleans, LA.
Selected Conferences and Keynote Addresses
He has spoken on numerous panels and conferences including keynotes: Society of Information
Technology in Education Conference, Orlando (2006), Digital Storytelling Festival, (1997), BBC
International Digital Storytelling Conference (2003), Stanford Educational Technology Conference
(1999), Apple Educators Camp, Walker Ranch, CA(1999), Fast Forward West of England (1994),
California Arts Council Arts and Technology Conference (1996). He has presented at numerous
conferences including The Work of Stories, MIT Media Lab (2005), the National Educational
Technology Conference (Sienna, Italy, 2004), and the Participatory Media Conference (Vaxjo, Sweden,
2006). He was the co-convener and presenter at all seven US-based Digital Storytelling Festivals
(1995-2004), and acted as the co-chair of all five the International Digital Storytelling Conferences
(Cardiff 2003, Melbourne 2006, Obidos 2009, Lillehammer 2011, Ankara 2013)
Selected Honors and Awards
Lambert and CDS were awarded the first Achievement Award for Service of the International Digital
Media Arts Association in 2004. Lambert and CDS were awarded the 2009 Center of Excellence Award
at the New Media Consortium. Lambert has served as a Fulbright Senior Specialist in New Zealand
(2003, 2007) and Brazil (2006). Lambert participated in the Art, Community, Social Justice and
National Recovery meeting with the Obama Administration at the White House, May 2009.
Teaching Positions
Lecturer, New College of California (1990-91)
Lecturer, UC Berkeley (1998-2000)
Education
Bachelor of Arts, UC Berkeley, 1983