Fireside Chats: This Is Me!: Storytelling, Belonging, and Self-Love

Name: Fireside Chats: This Is Me!: Storytelling, Belonging, and Self-Love
Start: 2025-03-19T10:00:00-05:00
End: 2025-03-19T11:00:00-05:00
Location: Dorothy Goff Fisch Recital Hall

by Office of Community Culture

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Back to Carroll University Ethos Symposium

Wed, Mar 19, 2025

10 AM – 11 AM CDT (GMT-5)

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Dorothy Goff Fisch Recital Hall

218 N. East Ave, Waukesha, WI 53186, United States

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During this session, Dr. Cheng will first share a vulnerable story to demonstrate how writing and telling stories enables us to create a sense of identity, belonging, and empowerment. Following the short performance, she will discuss how she uses central principles of storytelling, such as vulnerability, trust, and intimacy, to build bridges across differences and to create genuine connections with others.

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Ada Chang

Professor and Artist

Dominican University

An educator-turned storyteller, creator, and producer, Dr. Ada Cheng has utilized storytelling to illustrate structural inequities, raise critical awareness, and build intimate communities. Committed to amplifying and uplifting marginalized voices, she has created numerous storytelling platforms for BIPOC and LGBTQ+ community members to tell difficult and vulnerable stories. Dr. Cheng has been a speaker for Illinois Humanities Road Scholars Speakers Bureau since 2019. She was named 2023-24 Lund-Gill Endowed Chair at Dominican University. She was one of the Illinois Humanities Public Humanities Award honorees in 2024. Her interests encompass academia, storytelling/performance, and advocacy

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