Join us for a special online edition of Story Collider, featuring true, personal stories from our incredible workshop participants!
This is more than just a showcase—it’s a celebration of vulnerability, creativity, and community. It’s also a chance to support Story Collider’s mission to empower scientists, science enthusiasts, and everyone in between to tell their own stories.
Whether you're a longtime fan or just discovering Story Collider, you won’t want to miss this inspiring night of mic drop–worthy stories—all developed in one of our storytelling workshops.
Hosted by Story Collider’s Executive Director and co-founder, Erin Barker.
Molly Magid is a science communicator and podcast producer. She has been telling stories about science since the first grade, when she wrote a biologically accurate story about ladybugs. Originally from Denver, Colorado, Molly now lives in Christchurch, New Zealand. She enjoys sharing her passion for science anywhere from podcasts to social media to declaring her love of longfin eels on the street.
Léa Souccar was born in Lebanon, three years into the war. By the time the fighting stopped, she was twelve. In between, the voice of her storytelling grandmother carried me above the chaos—like a flying carpet—and helped shape who she became.
During her first year studying Performing Arts, Beirut hosted its first Storytelling and Monodrama Festival. She skipped classes that week to attend every lecture by day and every performance by night. Something long asleep inside her woke up. From that moment on, she trained relentlessly, learning from renowned storytellers from around the world.
After earning a Master’s in Theater Education for Special Needs, she began working as a storyteller and puppeteer, sharing stories in schools, hospitals, refugee camps, and prisons.
In 2010, she became a primary school teacher in France. She found her place in a preschool classroom, where she began exploring all the ways oral storytelling can support and inspire learning. Today, she leads workshops where she shares her two greatest passions: storytelling and education—and the sparks that fly when the two meet.
Jitesh Jaggi is a recent immigrant from India, currently living in Chicago. He ended his career in Finance one day when he lost all his data that he forgot to save on an Excel sheet, and realized that he just didn't care. That tipping point led to him becoming a writer and he is currently working on a book of essays. A two-time Moth StorySlam winner and a producer for the Story Collider, he also coaches individual and corporate clients in telling their stories. He loves writing bios because he can refer to himself in the third person. Jitesh can be easily bribed with books and chocolates.