If you look close enough, you can see the footprints of yesterday, all over today. Follows the stories of 5 tellers traveling through time. Join the Story Collider in Chicago for an evening of five personal stories with tellers diving into the rabbit hole of time and travel back to the future to discover pieces of themselves they thought they left behind.
Hosted by Lily Be and Reyhaneh Maktoufi. Doors at 7:30.
Stories by:
Padraic Stanley is a social worker living in Chicago, IL. He currently works as a program
coordinator for health promotion programs in the Rush University Medical Center Department of Social Work & Community Health. He is also the chair of Rush’s Immigrant Health Working Group, which oversees Rush’s immigrant health and welcoming healthcare initiatives. Up until recently, Padraic was also a registry inpatient case manager at Mercy Hospital and Medical Center on the weekends. He is a graduate of the Loyola University Chicago School of Social Work, where he completed the Albert Schweitzer Fellowship and completed a clinical practicum at Heartland Human Care Services and the Illinois Coalition for Immigrant and Refugee Rights. Currently, he is on the associate board for Erie Neighborhood House, a member of the National Schweitzer Fellowship Alumni Leadership Committee, and an active member of the International Association for Social Work with Groups.
Brittany Lundberg is back in her hometown of Chicago after recently getting her B.A. in English from the University of Illinois. She's now working at her first big girl job as an editorial assistant at the Society of Critical Care Medicine--a wonderful scientific society that is committed to helping critically injured or ill patients and their health care professionals. During the interview process, Brittany was told she had a leg-up because she was "sick and injured so dang much." Less important accomplishments include her award-winning research on dystopian literature, her self-started writing collective, and six grueling years of customers service--all of which have given fuel to Brittany's storytelling fire.
Luis Antonio Perez is a live lit storyteller and audio recordist from Chicago. He is a multiple time Moth Story Slam Winner and previously hosted and produced public affairs programming for Chicago Public Media. You can find him on Twitter and Instagram at @Northsidelou.
Aubrey Henretty is a writer and storyteller in Chicago. Her work has been featured at Story Club (North and South Sides), on billboards and city buses, and on WBEZ's PleasureTown podcast. She is the writer and host of The Adler Planetarium's Aquarius Project Podcast, which tells the true story of an underwater meteorite hunt led by an actor, a bunch of kids, and a few scientists they picked up along the way.
Diana Burdette was born and raised in California living in most major cities up and down the coast. Her travels East took her to Las Vegas where she worked with the Las Vegas Monorail as a Public Relations Coordinator before her move to Chicago. During her time in Chicago Illinois, Diana met and married her best friend and biggest supporter, and opened a Fair Trade Organic Coffee shop in Logan Square. A first of its kind in the area. Their plan to continue their education brought them to Waukegan in 2010. As a resident of Waukegan Diana was an advocate for Natural Cesarean Section procedures, and breastfeeding for all. She was also a supporter and educator of babywearing. While completing her BA with a focus on Communication, Organization, and Leadership she also began taking on Environmental Justice issues local to Lake County working as a volunteer activist and organizer. Her passion to bring equity and inclusion to all residents of Lake County have led her to run for the office of Illinois House of Representatives District 60, and she is currently running a campaign to unite the voices of the community to provide a space where all voices can be heard.