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In honoring the Rockefeller Foundation, StoryCorps also revealed its newest initiative,\u00a0One Small Step<\/a>, a new project aimed to help bring together a politically divided United States by applying StoryCorps\u2019 methods and recording conversations between people with different political viewpoints.<\/p>\n Scott Simon<\/strong>, host of NPR\u2019s\u00a0Weekend Edition<\/em>, served as the evening\u2019s host and emcee and offered remarks about the power of stories to transform our worldview.<\/p>\n \u201c[T]he need for us to develop empathy for one another is also powerful, especially in times when we\u2019re divided by politics, race, class, and experience,\u201d said Scott Simon. \u201cHearing stories from each other, sharing, learning, questioning, putting our minds and hearts into the stories of others, can be a step toward what Sir Tom Stoppard called \u2018building bridges across the incomprehension and chaos.\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n The evening celebrated some of the people who have recorded stories with StoryCorps that were shared on NPR\u2019s Morning Edition. Among the featured participants were\u00a0Darius Clark Monroe and David Ned<\/a>, who shared their story of seeking and extending forgiveness;\u00a0Paul Braun and \u201chis Iraqi brother\u201d Philip<\/a>, who served as Paul\u2019s interpreter during a tour of duty in Iraq; and Scott Skiles,\u00a0who interviewed his son Scott<\/a>.<\/p>\n Amani Al-Khatahtbeh<\/strong>\u00a0received the YouTube Creators for Change Award for her work as a rising voice in social, religious, and political issues and the editor-in-chief of\u00a0Muslim Girl<\/a>, a platform for Muslim women’s voices in the West. StoryCorps and YouTube also debuted a new digital series,\u00a0\u201cWhen we listen,\u201d that features StoryCorps conversations among YouTube Creators shared on video<\/a>.<\/p>\n Through the outstanding leadership and generosity of our supporters, the event raised more than $725,000 for StoryCorps\u2019 mission to preserve and share humanity\u2019s stories in order to build connections between people and create a more just and compassionate world.<\/p>\n Source: SNPR Story Corps<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" StoryCorps celebrated remarkable stories of courage and the storytellers who shared them at our annual gala Wednesday, October 25, at Capitale…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":245,"featured_media":2257,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_oasis_is_in_workflow":0,"_oasis_original":0,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_vp_format_video_url":"","_vp_image_focal_point":[],"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[45],"class_list":["post-2256","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-careering"],"acf":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/blog.valdosta.edu\/m2\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/107\/2017\/10\/StoryCorps_Annual_Gala_Margarita_Corporan-46-1-636x415.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/paqOTj-Ao","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.valdosta.edu\/m2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2256","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.valdosta.edu\/m2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.valdosta.edu\/m2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.valdosta.edu\/m2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/245"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.valdosta.edu\/m2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2256"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.valdosta.edu\/m2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2256\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.valdosta.edu\/m2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2257"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.valdosta.edu\/m2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2256"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.valdosta.edu\/m2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2256"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.valdosta.edu\/m2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2256"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![\"\"](\"https:\/\/storycorpsorg-staging.s3.amazonaws.com\/uploads\/StoryCorps_Annual_Gala_Margarita_Corporan-31-1-636x487.jpg\")
<\/p>\nTop photo:\u00a0Amani Al-Khatahtbeh (left) accepts the YouTube Creators for Change Award. Pictured with YouTube’s Lauren Bozarth.
\n<\/strong>Bottom photo: Honoree Dr. Rajiv Shah, President of The Rockefeller Foundation.<\/strong>
\nAll photos by Margarita Corporan.<\/strong><\/h5>\n