Frances has worked as a social development facilitator for over two decades in First Nation communities and urban social service agencies. She has focused on projects relating to early years and parenting, healing and wellness, and socially-engaged art, in particular a storytelling process that links oral storytelling to digital editing technology. Frances is certified as a digital storytelling facilitator through University of Colorado and Story Center.
Frances has been a story gatherer all her life: an eavesdropper, a nosy parker, a searcher for stories larger than the Holocaust atrocity stories her father told her as a child. She loves the way we humans use art to tell authentic, multi-layered stories, in particular the stories that come out of our own life experiences and those of our ancestors. Frances believes that it is these stories that soften the divide between ‘us’ and ‘them’ and support our efforts to create a sweeter and more just world.
