MANP Connects: Telling Our Stories, Shaping Our Impact
Zoom
Event Details
At MANP, we believe that by bringing people, ideas and resources together we will collectively be more strategic, creative, and courageous in our missions to advance the public good.
Over the past several years, our MANP Connects program has become a consistent space to hear stories from our peers and partners about opportunities and challenges facing Maine nonprofits and communities. So we thought, what better way to kick off our 2025 MANP Connects gatherings than with a session centered on storytelling. We'll hear from three guests who place storytelling at the center of their work.
Cost + Registration
- Free to attend and all are welcome!
- Register to receive access to the live event
- Registrants will receive a confirmation email as well as a reminder email that will be sent one day prior to the event.
- This MANP-hosted webinar will be hosted in Zoom Meeting and we ask participants turn off their cameras and mute themselves when joining.
- Watch previous MANP Connects on our Youtube Channel!
About the Panelists
Meadow Dibble, Ph.D. is a researcher and antiracist historical recovery advocate. Originally from Cape Cod, she lived for six years on Senegal’s Cape Verde peninsula. Meadow received her PhD from Brown University’s Department of French Studies and taught at Colby College from 2005–08. In 2018, following a brutal awakening to her hometown’s deep investment in the business of slavery, she founded Atlantic Black Box, a nonprofit based in Portland, Maine that empowers communities throughout New England to take up the critical work of researching and reckoning with the region’s active role in colonization and the global economy of enslavement. As Executive Director of Atlantic Black Box, Meadow heads up the Walk for Historical and Ecological Recovery (WHERE) initiative.
Erika Sanger has dedicated her career to building public engagement in American arts and history. She served as the leading ambassador and advocate for museums at the Museum Association of New York where she worked with the board and staff to double membership and revenue and reach thousands of people across the nation with virtual programs. Sanger has held positions at renowned institutions including the New-York Historical Society and the Brooklyn Museum where she produced traditional music, jazz, and folk arts programs as well as panel discussions, lectures, and film series. She lived and worked in rural Western North Carolina for 10 years first as Director of Development at Penland School of Crafts and then as Curator of Education at the Asheville Art Museum. Sanger holds a B.F.A. from Clark University, and an M.A. from NYU. She and her husband live on the west side of Stonington.
Jacqueline Van Meter is an impact storytelling strategist and a 7-year veteran of the national storytelling nonprofit StoryCorps. Most recently, she served as Creative Operations Director for StoryCorps Studios, the organization's award-winning brand studio, where she directed strategic content development projects for leading mission-aligned partners and brands. In 2018, Jacqueline spent a full year on the road facilitating hundreds of interviews in StoryCorps's Airstream Recording Booth and delivering story project workshops for a variety of community partners. In 2019, she co-produced the National Geographic Explorer project "Voices of a Flyway," and from 2020-2022, she trained national cohorts of public radio producers to build and lead their own community dialogue recording programs locally. Her work has been featured on NPR stations and at live events across the country. Explore her work at https://jacquelinevanmeter.com.