Storytelling for Impact

3: I did things I wouldn’t do now - Rachel Erskine, ethical storytelling expert

Listen on

Episode notes

Rachel Erskine, an ethical storytelling expert who works for Amref Health Africa in the UK, shares her thoughts on how aid agencies and NGOs can make amends for the harm past approaches to storytelling may have caused to communities.

Recent Episodes

8: Not enough NGOs consider paying story contributors - Laura Elizabeth Pohl, humanitarian photographer

12 September 2021

7: Going undercover always carries a risk – Ed Davey, environmental investigative journalist

1 August 2021

6: So much NGO language reinforces stereotypes – Sarika Bansal, ethical language expert

23 June 2021

5: Do no harm also applies to journalism – Thin Lei Win, humanitarian correspondent

21 May 2021

BONUS: How to get into human rights reporting, with Iain Overton

7 May 2021