Recognizing the power of stories, Cristina Sánchez-Martín, assistant professor in the UW Department of English, and Taiko Aoki-Marcial, UW PhD candidate in English language and rhetoric, created a storytelling workshop and course for community members learning English as a second language (ESL). Grants from the Simpson Center for the Humanities in the UW College of Arts & Sciences, Humanities Washington, and the Brown Chair in English Literacy at the University of Arkansas supported the project, titled “Translationships: stories, languages, and communities”; Both educators had existing relationships with multilingual communities in the Seattle area — Sánchez-Martín with Casa Latina, Aoki-Marcial with Literacy Source. With this project, they saw an opportunity to add a new dimension to that work.

Read more about the project in https://www.translationships.net/