“These are stories that nobody gets to tell in the mainstream media … the quiet, desperate stories of everyday lives” Sarah Austin Jenness of The Moth has worked for over a decade helping ordinary people tell their stories before a live audience. An executive producer for the storytelling platform since 2005, Jenness told Women in the World that she’s found oral storytelling to prove a powerful medium because it “forces you to take stock of what you’ve been through.”

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