Story Research provides community-based research, evaluation, and engagement. We strategize with partners across public art, culture, and health sectors to understand and improve the impact of programs and policies.
We specialize in participatory and place-based approaches that contribute to the vitality of neighborhoods and communities.
We develop strategies to innovate programs and enhance existing ones. We document outcomes to advance systems change. Our methods are strength-based and asset-led.
We design research protocols and collect data to answer pressing questions about health, community wellness, and social equity. To correct disparities, we need structural change.
We partner with community groups to uplift local expertise and cultural practices, strengthen cross-sector collaboration, and co-activate policy change. Collective knowledge and cultural expression are key to sustainable and community-driven transformation.
We prioritize cultural ethnographic methods, a valuation that comes from deep engagement with communities and the conviction that we need to tell our own stories. Stories reveal how we make sense of the world—the policies that shape our everyday lives, how we change structures that don’t serve us, how we innovate, and how we create joy in the places we steward.