Story Makers

Human beings do not simply tell stories—we create stories and we inhabit stories. Stories shape how we understand ourselves and everything around us. Some stories become so deeply embedded in culture that they evolve into mythologies that drive deeper human patterns unfolding across centuries.

But we always hold the possibility of creating and inhabiting new and better stories. Through both my professional work and personal pursuits, I’m driven to nurture and spread stories that center on restoring relationships of respect and reciprocity with the larger world—whether through film, photography, writing, or those quiet moments around a campfire when a softly spoken story replicates a scene that humans have been participating in for hundreds of thousands of years.