Stories from the Stoop: Shawna Rene

By Melissa Gerr

Published February 21, 2020 at 10:12 AM EST

Here is a Stoop Story from Shawna René, about how even little things can make a big impact. René is the founder of the ‘Say It Out Loud’ Urban Storytelling Collective in Washington, DC. You can hear her story and many others at stoopstorytelling.com, as well as the Stoop podcast.

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Melissa Gerr

Melissa Gerr is a Senior Producer for On the Record. She started in public media at Twin Cities Public Television in St. Paul, Minn., where she is from, and then worked as a field producer for Oregon Public Broadcasting in Portland. She made the jump to audio-lover in Baltimore as a digital media editor at Mid-Atlantic Media and Laureate Education, Inc. and as a field producer for "Out of the Blocks." Her beat is typically the off-beat with an emphasis on science, culture and things that make you say, 'Wait, what?'

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