At the Summit, participants stepped into the Wolverine Stories Video Booth to tell their stories about the University of Michigan. Any story was welcome, and participants were invited to reflect on the following questions: What is something you will never forget about your time at U-M? What was a challenge you faced? What was a success you had?
The Wolverine Stories Video Booth is fashioned after the longstanding oral history program StoryCorps that travels the country recording the personal stories of all kinds of people living in the U.S. for inclusion in the Library of Congress. With an eye (or ear) to capturing similar personal stories from the University of Michigan, the Inclusive Storytelling Hub at UM-Dearborn created the Wolverine Stories Video Booth. This booth is open to anyone with a connection to U-M to share their stories and accounts of inclusion and exclusion that will help create more comprehensive and expansive histories of the University of Michigan. This unique opportunity allows each person to share a short story (around 10-15 minutes) with the University of Michigan. Stories documented at the Wolverine Stories Video Booth may be used to support future oral histories, documentaries, and other works that examine the history of our institution. What’s your story?
Wolverine Stories Video Booth is co-created and organized by the Inclusive Storytelling Hub, led by Jen Proctor and Rick Morrone, with support from Jay Snyder-Phillippoff, Wren Snyder, Marcos Carrillo, and Ben Filler. It is made possible by support from the Inclusive History Project.