Laura Wexler
HostLaura Wexler is the co-founder and co-producer of The Stoop Storytelling Series, a popular cultural event and podcast in which “ordinary” people share extraordinary true tales about their lives. An expert in personal storytelling, Laura has presented workshops and trainings for organizations, businesses, and individuals since 2006, and has coached more than 3,000 people to tell the true tales of their lives. In addition to her work with The Stoop, Laura is the author of the narrative nonfiction book, Fire in a Canebrake: The Last Mass Lynching in America (Scribner, 2003), as well as nonfiction published in The Washington Post Magazine, The New York Times, and elsewhere. She has developed TV for Amazon Studios and co-created a Virtual Reality film that premiered at Sundance Film Festival 2018. She is a researcher and writer on Apple TV’s “The Morning Show” and is developing several independent projects.
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This week on the podcast, three storytellers share tales about their relationships with animals. Let's just say, "It's complicated." -
This week on the podcast, three stories that prove we often know the least about the people closest to us. -
This week on the podcast, three dispatches from high school in which our heroes and heroines try to be cool — and fail. Which makes us love them more. -
The pleasures and perils of watching your first R-rated movie in a theater. -
This week on the podcast, two tales of people doing battle with an undercover epidemic. -
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This week on the podcast, two Black women share their quest to tell Black stories in Baltimore. -
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