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Humanity is the first casualty of war. Neighbors become other, become adversaries. How does a nation rebuild in the aftermath? How…

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Our interschool Story Exchange at Chisipite Senior School in Harare, Zimbabwe was as revealing as it was heartwarming.  N4 Africa’s Head…

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We’re thrilled to be the recipients of a 2022 Amazon Literary Partnerships grant, supporting organizations across the country that empower writers…

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How much do children in Moyross and Cairo have in common? Turns out it’s a lot more than you might think.

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Buchi Onyegbule, N4 Africa’s Head of Operations, was recently profiled in Tech Cabal magazine.

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After months of meeting on Zoom, our student ambassadors from University Heights High School (UHHS) in The Bronx, NY and…

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Everybody’s talking about N4 Mexico! Operations Manager Maru Castañeda fields questions from local media at N4 Mexico’s first community event.

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Learn how the Story Exchange inspired one high school student to turn his empathy into action.

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Jahi Mackey graduated from the University of New Orleans with a BA in International Studies and earned an MA in Intercultural…

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Vanessa Manko is the author of The Invention of Exile, which was a finalist for The Center for Fiction’s First Novel Award,…

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As our presence in the Pacific Northwest US grows, we’re excited to highlight the work of one of our new…

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If you’re heading to #AWP22, we’d love to see you there! You can find the good folks of Narrative 4…

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N4 Mexico Operations Manager Maru Castañeda recently led a virtual SEL workshop for over 150 parents at Colegio Inglés Americano in Monterrey, Nuevo León, Mexico.

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Radio and TV Presenter Louise Cantillon (center) joins N4 Ireland Student Ambassadors to spread the word about their new national Empathy School Awards.

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We’re excited to welcome our new Finance Manager Gus Lopez to the N4 Team!  Born and raised in The Bronx,…

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N4 has been expanding our resources to support teachers and students as they explore the story exchange. Here’s one example…

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Professor and N4 Educational Equity Advisor Ernest Morrell was recently featured in the Notre Dame series “What Are You Fighting For?”

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Check out N4 Ireland Director Dr. James Lawlor on the Three Things that Matter podcast with Ann Blake!  James’s three…

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We have all of the technology we need to connect and yet we are more isolated than ever. I am…

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Maru Castañeda has been an active member of the N4 community since 2013. As an educator and Master Practitioner, she…

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There’s an idea that we’re hopelessly divided, that our differences are far more important than our commonalities. That no amount…

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Humility is key when talking about the power of literature. The writer can’s do all that much, but the reader…

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Narrative 4 partners with Seton Hill University for Grappling with Genocide Summer Institute for high school educators.

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Dr. Leslie Burns explores how narrative strategies support students’ need for community and connection.

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Bronx-based educator Liz Haela spoke with Chalkbeat about how she’s using the Narrative 4 Story Exchange to help her students reacclimate to in-class learning, promote active listening, and spark curiosity.

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Laura Muriello joined the N4 team in July of 2021 as the Vice President, North America. Laura is a Mexican-American, first-generation college graduate…

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Amber Coleman-Mortley chats with N4 Director of Global Programs Lee Keylock about how stories bring people together and create a more nuanced understanding of the human condition.

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We all know that stories transform the world. But we also know that stories work only when action is taken.…

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We are thrilled to be among the 10 nonprofits selected to receive an NBCUniversal grant to advance social justice and…

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Author and N4 Co-Founder Colum McCann explores storytelling as a national tradition.

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Get to know Narrative 4 through the stories of our students, educators, and artists!

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Watch N4 founding artist and poet Darrell Bourque in conversations with painter Bill Gingles, N4 Master Practitioner and poet Faisal Mohyuddin, N4 board chair and co-founder of the Telos Group, Greg Khalil, and N4 Global Student Ambassador Malak Lahham.

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In the opening session of migraré, our three-day story exchange about race and identity, N4 Director of Marketing and Communications, Felice Belle, talks to Lama Rod Owens about why conversations about race are challenging for so many and how educators can resource themselves for this difficult and necessary work.

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Listen to Sharhonda Bossier, EdLoc Deputy Director and N4 Board Director, on The New York Times podcast The Daily! Sharhonda shares a moving personal narrative about her grandparents…

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Ishmael Beah’s new novel, Little Family, will be the focal point of this event as we dive into what it means to turn empathy into action in the Joe Slovo Township of Port Elizabeth, South Africa.

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Can you build empathy in a virtual world? The answer is a resounding, yes! Our friends at Stand Together joined us…

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“We need to hear from corners of America we haven’t heard from. I want you to go out with a…

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We are thrilled to be one of the trailblazing programs featured in the Bridging Differences Playbook published by UC Berkeley’s Greater Good Science…

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Ilustrator Eimear McNally captures the lessons, learning, and bonding that happened during this 8-week project between prisoners at Mountjoy and college students. In partnership with Gaisce -The President’s Award.

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Narrative 4 is pleased to launch a Summer of Impact with Apeirogon, an event designed to highlight the mission and work of Narrative 4 through great literature. Watch New York Times best-selling author and N4 co-founder, Colum McCann, in conversation with Bassam Aramin and Rami Elhanan, the two main, real life characters in McCann’s new novel, Apeirogon.

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Not everything that is faced can be changed; but nothing can be changed until it is faced. – James Baldwin…

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What happens when students who’ve never met share intimate stories with each other?

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“What time demands now is a new form of contrapuntal listening: we are part of the larger music, and we…

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Buchi Onyegbule is a broadcast journalist, editor, and sometime writer. Most recently, he was the host of The Morning Mojo,…

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Watch students from The Bronx, NY, and Langley, KY, cross state lines — and cultural divides.

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Ruth Gilligan is a Narrative 4 Artist and Global Master Practitioner, born in Dublin and based in the UK. Her…

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Humanity is the first casualty of war. Neighbors become other, become adversaries. How does a nation rebuild in the aftermath? How…

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‘Tis the season! Our Field Exchange students from University Heights High School (UHHS) in the Bronx, NY and Floyd Central…

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For the past few months, students from University Heights High School in New York, the American School of Tampico in…

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NY1 captured a virtual exchange between students at University Heights High School (UHHS) in the Bronx, NY and Floyd County…

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We need to hear from corners of America we haven’t heard from. I want you to go out with a…

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Our impactful collaboration with the Boston-based WGBH (PBS affiliate) and the non-profit The GroundTruth Project, resulted in this video from…

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What does it mean to be a man in the twenty-first century? In Limerick, Narrative 4 Ireland’s “Boys’ Stories” partnered…

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Our European Director, Ruairí McKiernan, recently spoke with The Irish Times about the need for increased empathy and the work…

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“The eight of us gathered together again…We knew what was coming: we would tell our stories to each other, and in the process, get a glimpse of each other’s lives.”

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When sizeable refugee populations from African and Muslim countries start resettling in communities that look, talk and pray nothing like them, friction and outright racism can follow. Can simple storytelling prevent that fate?

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In addition to the late December 2016 cover story, we partnered with New York magazine to produce a mini-documentary on our Empathy into…

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