Hey listeners and especially grown-up listeners, Lee here.

I'm really excited to announce that Story Pirates is executive producing a brand new

podcast for grown-ups who believe in arts education.

It's called Arts Educators Save the World and today I'm so thrilled to share with you

the very first episode which features our friends, Lin Manuel Miranda and Robert Lopez.

This educator Save the World is a show about conversations between incredible artists like

Lin and Bobby with the arts educators who helped mold them.

Here's the very first episode and if you like it you can hear episode 2 right now by searching

for Arts Educators Save the World wherever you listen to podcasts.

And while you're there please consider subscribing to the show and leaving a review because

that's the way more people can find it.

We'll be back later this week with a new episode of the Story Pirates Podcast but in the

meantime please enjoy episode 1 of Arts Educators Save the World.

The direct education we got from Barbara wanting us to like go headlong into running our

own show and the empowerment that comes with student run theater, it was life changing

for me.

Hey, welcome to Arts Educators Save the World.

A podcast where successful artists talk with their mentors about the impact they've had

in their lives and the ways that mentorship and education made them the people they are.

My name is Erica Rosenfeld-Halverson and I am your host and superhero guide.

As a superhero I wear a lot of costumes.

My Clark Kent suit is as a professor of education at the University of Wisconsin Madison.

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