Brown University

My whole life, storytelling has shaped me. When I lived in London, my parents would read me "The Lion King" every night until I’d memorized the whole book. In elementary school, I would curl up in my bed, warm lamplight making my room golden, listening to my dad bring to life classics like "Wilderness Champion" and "Tom Sawyer". Later, I found audio storytelling, laughing hysterically at "Wait Wait Don’t Tell Me" on the car ride to school and connecting to a radio network of humanity through "This American Life". It wasn’t long before I got hooked on visual narratives, mesmerized by the…