IA StoryShare 2025
IAStoryShare is a podcast from Imagining America, that features one-on-one conversations between publicly engaged community members who join together in critical dialogue and share lessons learned from the field. Listen and subscribe to full episodes of the podcast on: Podbean.
The episodes in this season feature participants who attended the 2025 IA National Gathering in Las Cruces, NM – Providing Passage: Practicing the Worlds We Want.
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IA StoryShare, Episode 15: Lizzy Cooper Davis and Ural Grant
April 28, 2026
For this season of IA Storyshare, we brought together participants from the most recent 2025 IA National Gathering at Las Cruces, NM. In this third episode of the season, theater practitioners/educators Lizzy Cooper Davis and Ural Grant talk about inter-disciplinary practice, working across silos, what sustains them in this work.
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IA StoryShare, Episode 14: Chaz Barracks and Sylvia Gale
January 30, 2026
For this season of IA Storyshare, we brought together participants from the most recent 2025 IA National Gathering at Las Cruces, NM. In this second episode of the season, longtime collaborators Chaz Barracks and Sylvia Gale talk about black joy and play, creative administration, and surviving the academy.
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IA Storyshare, Episode 13: Jan Cohen-Cruz and Lynne Elizabeth
January 5, 2026
For this season of IA Storyshare, we brought together participants from the most recent 2025 IA National Gathering at Las Cruces, NM. In this first episode of the season, longtime IA participants Jan Cohen-Cruz and Lynne Elizabeth take us down memory lane, and share their insights about the transforming ecology of publicly engaged scholarship.
