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Article • Ethical ELA, Aug 15, 2021

Using Storytelling for Trauma-Informed Pedagogy During COVID and Beyond

Dr. Leslie Burns explores how narrative strategies support students’ need for community and connection.

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Video • YouTube, Sep 02, 2020

Synchronicity: A Celebration of Art, Empathy, and Action

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Article • The Guardian, Jun 22, 2020

Teenagers Trade Personal Stories: It’s Great to Find You Are Not Alone

What happens when students who’ve never met share intimate stories with each other?

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Video • YouTube, Jul 26, 2022

Interschool Story Exchange in Zimbabwe

Our interschool Story Exchange at Chisipite Senior School in Harare, Zimbabwe was as revealing as it was heartwarming. N4 Africa’s Head…

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Video • , Jun 28, 2022

Art as the History of Our Lives

Everybody’s talking about N4 Mexico! Operations Manager Maru Castañeda fields questions from local media at N4 Mexico’s first community event.

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Blog • N4 Ireland

Students commemorate 25th anniversary of Good Friday Agreement with ‘The Possible’

Students in Belfast, London, Dublin and Limerick took to the streets this Monday reflecting on the peace process and the…

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Blog • N4 Ireland

Narrative 4 Ireland launches new publication to amplify the voices of young women

Girls Stories Project 2018-2021 – supported by Lorna Byrne Children’s Foundation. The Girls Stories Integration Project was founded by Sheila…

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Limerick’s first Bronze Empathy School Awardees, Gaelcholáiste Luimnigh!

Gaelcholáiste Luimnigh is Limerick’s first recipient of Narrative 4’s Empathy School Award, a National Award for secondary schools. This award…

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Blog • N4 Africa

Interschool Story Exchange in Zimbabwe

Our interschool Story Exchange at Chisipite Senior School in Harare, Zimbabwe was as revealing as it was heartwarming. N4 Africa’s Head…

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Narrative 4 Receives 2022 Amazon Literary Partnerships Grant

We’re thrilled to be the recipients of a 2022 Amazon Literary Partnerships grant, supporting organizations across the country that empower writers…

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Blog • N4 Ireland

Students from Moyross and Cairo team up for unique Narrative 4 Story Exchange

How much do children in Moyross and Cairo have in common? Turns out it’s a lot more than you might think.

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Blog • N4 Africa

Quick Fire with Buchi Onyegbule

Buchi Onyegbule, N4 Africa’s Head of Operations, was recently profiled in Tech Cabal magazine.

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Blog • Field Exchange

The Future’s So Bright

After months of meeting on Zoom, our student ambassadors from University Heights High School (UHHS) in The Bronx, NY and…

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Blog • N4 Mexico

Art as the History of Our Lives

Everybody’s talking about N4 Mexico! Operations Manager Maru Castañeda fields questions from local media at N4 Mexico’s first community event.

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Blog • Civic Engagement

8 complete strangers tell their life stories. Watch what happens next.

Learn how the Story Exchange inspired one high school student to turn his empathy into action.

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Meet Jahi Mackey

Jahi Mackey graduated from the University of New Orleans with a BA in International Studies and earned an MA in Intercultural…

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Meet Vanessa Manko

Vanessa Manko is the author of The Invention of Exile, which was a finalist for The Center for Fiction’s First Novel Award,…

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Blog • Partners

The Heart of Everything

As our presence in the Pacific Northwest US grows, we’re excited to highlight the work of one of our new…

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Blog • Artists Network

N4 @ AWP 2022

If you’re heading to #AWP22, we’d love to see you there! You can find the good folks of Narrative 4…

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Blog • N4 Mexico

Change Begins at Home

N4 Mexico Operations Manager Maru Castañeda recently led a virtual SEL workshop for over 150 parents at Colegio Inglés Americano in Monterrey, Nuevo León, Mexico.

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Blog • N4 Ireland

Empathy School Awards

Radio and TV Presenter Louise Cantillon (center) joins N4 Ireland Student Ambassadors to spread the word about their new national Empathy School Awards.

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Meet Gus Lopez

We’re excited to welcome our new Finance Manager Gus Lopez to the N4 Team! Born and raised in The Bronx,…

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Blog • Research

Building Resilience Through Storytelling

N4 has been expanding our resources to support teachers and students as they explore the story exchange. Here’s one example…

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Meet Ernest Morrell

Professor and N4 Educational Equity Advisor Ernest Morrell was recently featured in the Notre Dame series “What Are You Fighting For?”

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Blog • N4 Ireland

Dr. James Lawlor on the Three Things That Matter Podcast

Check out N4 Ireland Director Dr. James Lawlor on the Three Things that Matter podcast with Ann Blake! James’s three…

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The Farm Feature: Lisa Consiglio of Narrative 4

We have all of the technology we need to connect and yet we are more isolated than ever. I am…

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Blog • N4 Mexico

Meet Maru Castañeda

Maru Castañeda has been an active member of the N4 community since 2013. As an educator and Master Practitioner, she…

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Blog • Partners

The Value of Community

There’s an idea that we’re hopelessly divided, that our differences are far more important than our commonalities. That no amount…

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Blog • Artists Network

Ru Freeman Interviews Colum McCann

Humility is key when talking about the power of literature. The writer can’s do all that much, but the reader…

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Blog • Partners

Seton Hill University Awarded Grant from The National Endowment for the Humanities

Narrative 4 partners with Seton Hill University for Grappling with Genocide Summer Institute for high school educators.

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Blog • Research

Using Storytelling for Trauma-Informed Pedagogy During COVID and Beyond

Dr. Leslie Burns explores how narrative strategies support students’ need for community and connection.

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How 5 teachers are changing their back-to-school routines to calm COVID worries and help students readjust

Bronx-based educator Liz Haela spoke with Chalkbeat about how she’s using the Narrative 4 Story Exchange to help her students reacclimate to in-class learning, promote active listening, and spark curiosity.

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Meet Laura Muriello: N4’s New Vice President, North America

Laura Muriello joined the N4 team in July of 2021 as the Vice President, North America. Laura is a Mexican-American, first-generation college graduate…

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Narratives: Moving from Empathy to Action

Amber Coleman-Mortley chats with N4 Director of Global Programs Lee Keylock about how stories bring people together and create a more nuanced understanding of the human condition.

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Need Hope? Read Our 2021 Annual Report!

We all know that stories transform the world. But we also know that stories work only when action is taken.…

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Narrative 4 Receives NBCUniversal Social Impact Grant

We are thrilled to be among the 10 nonprofits selected to receive an NBCUniversal grant to advance social justice and…

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Blog • Artists Network,N4 Ireland

So Long Out of Ireland

Author and N4 Co-Founder Colum McCann explores storytelling as a national tradition.

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Blog • Artists Network

Synchronicity: A Celebration of Art, Empathy, and Action

Get to know Narrative 4 through the stories of our students, educators, and artists!

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Blog

Narrative 4 Summer of Impact presents “migraré: Reading and Roundtable”

Watch N4 founding artist and poet Darrell Bourque in conversations with painter Bill Gingles, N4 Master Practitioner and poet Faisal Mohyuddin, N4 board chair and co-founder of the Telos Group, Greg Khalil, and N4 Global Student Ambassador Malak Lahham.

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Narrative 4 Summer of Impact presents “A Conversation with Lama Rod Owens”

In the opening session of migraré, our three-day story exchange about race and identity, N4 Director of Marketing and Communications, Felice Belle, talks to Lama Rod Owens about why conversations about race are challenging for so many and how educators can resource themselves for this difficult and necessary work.

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Check Out Sharhonda Bossier on the NYT Podcast The Daily

Listen to Sharhonda Bossier, EdLoc Deputy Director and N4 Board Director, on The New York Times podcast The Daily! Sharhonda shares a moving personal narrative about her grandparents…

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Narrative 4 Summer of Impact presents “Little Family”

Ishmael Beah’s new novel, Little Family, will be the focal point of this event as we dive into what it means to turn empathy into action in the Joe Slovo Township of Port Elizabeth, South Africa.

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“We need to know each other”: STF Covers our Summer of Impact Kickoff Event ‘Apeirogon’

Can you build empathy in a virtual world? The answer is a resounding, yes! Our friends at Stand Together joined us…

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Crossing the Divide: Seeking Out Stories that Need to be Heard

“We need to hear from corners of America we haven’t heard from. I want you to go out with a…

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Bridging Differences Playbook

We are thrilled to be one of the trailblazing programs featured in the Bridging Differences Playbook published by UC Berkeley’s Greater Good Science…

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Blog • Civic Engagement

Mountjoy Prison and Maynooth University Story Exchange

Ilustrator Eimear McNally captures the lessons, learning, and bonding that happened during this 8-week project between prisoners at Mountjoy and college students. In partnership with Gaisce -The President’s Award.

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Narrative 4 Summer of Impact presents “Apeirogon”

Narrative 4 is pleased to launch a Summer of Impact with Apeirogon, an event designed to highlight the mission and work of Narrative 4 through great literature. Watch New York Times best-selling author and N4 co-founder, Colum McCann, in conversation with Bassam Aramin and Rami Elhanan, the two main, real life characters in McCann’s new novel, Apeirogon.

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Blog • Artists Network,Civic Engagement,N4 Africa

Narrative 4 Presents “Summer of Impact”

Not everything that is faced can be changed; but nothing can be changed until it is faced. – James Baldwin…

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Teenagers Trade Personal Stories: It’s Great to Find You Are Not Alone

What happens when students who’ve never met share intimate stories with each other?

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Til’ Human Voices Wake Us: What if This Virus Can Teach Us to Change Ourselves?

“What time demands now is a new form of contrapuntal listening: we are part of the larger music, and we…

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Meet Buchi Onyegbule: N4’s New Manager of African Operations

Buchi Onyegbule is a broadcast journalist, editor, and sometime writer. Most recently, he was the host of The Morning Mojo,…

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Blog • Field Exchange

The Power and Impact of Empathy in Action

Watch students from The Bronx, NY, and Langley, KY, cross state lines — and cultural divides.

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Blog • Artists Network

Ruth Gilligan and The Butchers

Ruth Gilligan is a Narrative 4 Artist and Global Master Practitioner, born in Dublin and based in the UK. Her…

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Meet Gautam Gangoli, Narrative 4’s New Chief Operating Officer

Gautam (pronounced: Gotham) Gangoli believes nothing is impossible, which makes him a perfect fit for the Narrative 4 team. With…

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Blog • N4 Africa

Why Not Art? Why Not Stories?: N4 Nigeria’s First Story Exchange

Humanity is the first casualty of war. Neighbors become other, become adversaries. How does a nation rebuild in the aftermath? How…

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Empathy Eats: 700 Miles Apart, N4 Field Exchange Students Share Thanksgiving Dishes

‘Tis the season! Our Field Exchange students from University Heights High School (UHHS) in the Bronx, NY and Floyd Central…

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Virtual Field Exchange: Connecting Students Around the World

For the past few months, students from University Heights High School in New York, the American School of Tampico in…

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A Great Divide: Bronx Students Engage in Cultural Exchange with Kentucky Students

NY1 captured a virtual exchange between students at University Heights High School (UHHS) in the Bronx, NY and Floyd County…

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Crossing the Divide

We need to hear from corners of America we haven’t heard from. I want you to go out with a…

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Upworthy Spotlights the Story Exchange

Our impactful collaboration with the Boston-based WGBH (PBS affiliate) and the non-profit The GroundTruth Project, resulted in this video from…

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Blog • N4 Ireland

Narrative 4 Ireland’s “Boys’ Stories” Explores What it Means to be a Man

What does it mean to be a man in the twenty-first century? In Limerick, Narrative 4 Ireland’s “Boys’ Stories” partnered…

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Blog • N4 Ireland

Empathy Education is as Important as Math or STEM

Our European Director, Ruairí McKiernan, recently spoke with The Irish Times about the need for increased empathy and the work…

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Blog • Civic Engagement

What Happened When Queer Victims of Bullying Sat Down with Former Bullies

“The eight of us gathered together again…We knew what was coming: we would tell our stories to each other, and in the process, get a glimpse of each other’s lives.”

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Blog • Civic Engagement

Can a life-swap exercise stop a community tearing itself in two?

When sizeable refugee populations from African and Muslim countries start resettling in communities that look, talk and pray nothing like them, friction and outright racism can follow. Can simple storytelling prevent that fate?

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N4 and New York Magazine Win ASME Award

In addition to the late December 2016 cover story, we partnered with New York magazine to produce a mini-documentary on our Empathy into…

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Videos • N4 Africa

Interschool Story Exchange in Zimbabwe

Our interschool Story Exchange at Chisipite Senior School in Harare, Zimbabwe was as revealing as it was heartwarming. N4 Africa’s Head…

Watch video
Videos • N4 Mexico

Art as the History of Our Lives

Everybody’s talking about N4 Mexico! Operations Manager Maru Castañeda fields questions from local media at N4 Mexico’s first community event.

Watch video
Videos • Civic Engagement

8 complete strangers tell their life stories. Watch what happens next.

Learn how the Story Exchange inspired one high school student to turn his empathy into action.

Watch video
Videos • N4 Ireland

Empathy School Awards

Radio and TV Presenter Louise Cantillon (center) joins N4 Ireland Student Ambassadors to spread the word about their new national Empathy School Awards.

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Videos • Research

Building Resilience Through Storytelling

N4 has been expanding our resources to support teachers and students as they explore the story exchange. Here’s one example…

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Videos

Meet Ernest Morrell

Professor and N4 Educational Equity Advisor Ernest Morrell was recently featured in the Notre Dame series “What Are You Fighting For?”

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Videos • Partners

The Value of Community

There’s an idea that we’re hopelessly divided, that our differences are far more important than our commonalities. That no amount…

Watch video
Videos • Artists Network

Synchronicity: A Celebration of Art, Empathy, and Action

Get to know Narrative 4 through the stories of our students, educators, and artists!

Watch video
Videos

Narrative 4 Summer of Impact presents “migraré: Reading and Roundtable”

Watch N4 founding artist and poet Darrell Bourque in conversations with painter Bill Gingles, N4 Master Practitioner and poet Faisal Mohyuddin, N4 board chair and co-founder of the Telos Group, Greg Khalil, and N4 Global Student Ambassador Malak Lahham.

Watch video
Videos

Narrative 4 Summer of Impact presents “A Conversation with Lama Rod Owens”

In the opening session of migraré, our three-day story exchange about race and identity, N4 Director of Marketing and Communications, Felice Belle, talks to Lama Rod Owens about why conversations about race are challenging for so many and how educators can resource themselves for this difficult and necessary work.

Watch video
Videos

Narrative 4 Summer of Impact presents “Little Family”

Ishmael Beah’s new novel, Little Family, will be the focal point of this event as we dive into what it means to turn empathy into action in the Joe Slovo Township of Port Elizabeth, South Africa.

Watch video
Videos • Civic Engagement

Mountjoy Prison and Maynooth University Story Exchange

Ilustrator Eimear McNally captures the lessons, learning, and bonding that happened during this 8-week project between prisoners at Mountjoy and college students. In partnership with Gaisce -The President’s Award.

Watch video
Videos

Narrative 4 Summer of Impact presents “Apeirogon”

Narrative 4 is pleased to launch a Summer of Impact with Apeirogon, an event designed to highlight the mission and work of Narrative 4 through great literature. Watch New York Times best-selling author and N4 co-founder, Colum McCann, in conversation with Bassam Aramin and Rami Elhanan, the two main, real life characters in McCann’s new novel, Apeirogon.

Watch video
Videos • Field Exchange

The Power and Impact of Empathy in Action

Watch students from The Bronx, NY, and Langley, KY, cross state lines — and cultural divides.

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Videos

Global Push to Break Down Barriers

See what happens when students in the Bronx share stories with local police officers.

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