Dawn Fraser: The Mission
The Story Collider
Story Collider, Inc.
4.4 • 824 Ratings
🗓️ 6 May 2016
⏱️ 14 minutes
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Summary
While working as a census taker in 2010, Dawn Fraser is taken by surprise when her partner asks her for a favor. Dawn J. Fraser is a storyteller, educator and and nationally acclaimed speaker based out of New York City. She is the Host of the live show and upcoming podcast ‘Barbershop Stories’, which features storytellers performing true tales in barbershops and salons. Dawn has created programs for college students, educators and entrepreneurs to develop leadership potential through storytelling, and is an Instructor with The Moth and The Story Studio. She was featured amongst some of the nation’s top innovators and change makers as a speaker at TED@NYC and has performed in shows including The Moth Mainstage, Story Collider, RISK and The Unchained Tour. She loves being a twin, a Trinidadian, and tweetable @dawnjfraser.
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| 0:00.0 | It can't have been neck-betted. |
| 0:01.5 | Can it? |
| 0:02.0 | Last season was 26 games, 26 losses and minus 137 goal difference. |
| 0:07.0 | Oh my God. |
| 0:08.3 | It was just battering after battering. |
| 0:10.5 | It was pathetic, to be perfectly honest. |
| 0:12.3 | What have I got myself in for here? |
| 0:14.3 | Welcome to Tunley. |
| 0:16.0 | It's me, Harry Redneck, and I'm back in the dugout with Spec Savers. |
| 0:20.1 | Try to turn around the fortunes |
| 0:21.8 | of the worst football team in the country. Follow Tunley Athletics journey by searching Specsavers' |
| 0:27.6 | best worst team on YouTube now. |
| 0:30.4 | Hi, a quick note at the top here. At the Story Collider, we believe that everyone has stories |
| 0:34.7 | about science, and we have all kinds of people on our stage and in this show, from police officers to comedians, and of course students, engineers, and |
| 0:41.3 | researchers of all kinds. Now, we know that storytelling is not something that's taught and is |
| 0:45.4 | sometimes explicitly discouraged during scientific training, and we're working to change that. |
| 0:50.5 | Our team offers workshops on storytelling for science communication. From one-hour lectures to three-day |
| 0:55.2 | intensive workshops, we can help you learn about narrative structure, develop your story ideas, |
| 0:59.4 | improve your performance, and connect with your audiences. Our creative, personalized coaching is |
| 1:03.5 | complemented by peer-reviewed theory and data-driven advice about scientific communication. |
| 1:08.2 | If you're interested, contact us at workshops at storyclider.org or see our website for more. |
| 1:15.3 | A science story, huh? |
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