Shannon M. Turner
Shannon M. Turner is the founder/creative director of StoryMuse, which offers storytelling techniques as a tool for personal discernment, team building, advocacy, and community development in an effort to cultivate a world where all stories are heard and honored. Shannon serves as an independent consultant who conducts workshops and provides coaching to individuals and organizations seeking to use true, personal stories for transformative potential. She is the producer of Carapace, Atlanta’s premier monthly true, personal storytelling event and has an MFA from Virginia Tech. Turner is a contributor to Stories from Alternate ROOTS: It'll Take Some Tellin'.
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Stories from Alternate ROOTS: It'll Take Some Tellin'
Written by more than 50 contributors, Stories from Alternate ROOTS chronicles the origins and fifty-year journey of a nonprofit arts organization that began in 1976. Bringing together interviews, poems, illustrations and essays, both personal and analytical, the diverse stories touch on a wide range of lessons, philosophies, issues and themes including the transformative power of community arts, democratic leadership, racial and gender equity, and navigating organizational and generational change.
