Jennifer R. Myhre

Season 1 of the 1500 Stories podcast is available just about wherever you listen to podcasts. Subscribe on Apple Podcasts, Stitcher, Google Podcasts, Amazon Music/Audible, Radio Public, Spotify, Player.fm, Radio.com and I Heart Radio. The 1500 Stories podcast cracks open the uncomfortable subjects of money and economic class. If you want a peek inside the kinds of experiences people usually don’t share in casual conversation, listen to 1500 Stories. While the 1500 Stories website features individual narratives, the podcast combines and weaves together many voices on a different theme each episode using interviews contributed to the 1500 Stories project.

Episode 1: The trailer

The mini-series on American notions of middleclassness:

• Episode 2: Not Rich Not Poor

• Episode 3: The Happy Medium

• Episode 4: There’s No Such Thing as Middle Class

The mini-series on rural life:

• Episode 5: Beyond Red Barns and Silos Part 1

• Episode 6: Beyond Red Barns and Silos Part 2

• Episode 7: Farming while Black or Brown Part 1

• Episode 8: Farming while Black or Brown Part 2

The mini-series on the housing crisis in Silicon Valley

• Episode 9: Even the Engineers Are Renting Part 1

• Episode 10: Even the Engineers Are Renting Part 2

I am the primary producer, writer and editor of the podcast, although I have a team of collaborators who worked on the episodes as well.

You can find several narratives that I have produced and edited for 1500 Stories at that website:

• Mercy’s Story

• Aida’s Story

• Leticia’s Story

1500 Stories is a collaborative art and digital storytelling project about economic inequality in the U.S. It now has an archive of over 700 in-depth interviews with people in New Jersey, Wisconsin and California about what life is like for people at different economic positions.

To encourage civic engagement and voting in the 2018 fall elections, the collaborative team behind the film made it publicly available on Youtube:

Berning Love aired on 12/12/17 on PBS Vermont and is now streaming as part of their Made Here series.  You can see the film in its entirety on PBS here.  Watch in 540p for the best viewing experience from your computer. :)

Berning Love is a tender documentary short about the search for love and community in the waning days of the 2016 Bernie Sanders primary campaign.  It was 2017 official selection at the Berlin Independent Film Festival, Green Mountain Film Festival, Rincon Film Festival and Bay Area Women in Film and Media International Shorts Showcase.  It won Overall Best Documentary Short at the Rincon Film Festival.  For this film, I worked as associate producer, co-editor, co-writer, second camera, and director of research.  You can learn more about the film at http://www.berninglovethefilm.com/

Homie UP: Stories of Love and Redemption, which won a 2015 Spotlight Documentary Film Silver Award, is a documentary about families whose lives are changed by mass incarceration after having a beloved family member incarcerated. This film is devoted to sharing how prisons affect not just those inside but how the prison walls also penetrate outward into families and communities. This film was directed, photographed, written and edited by Jennifer R. Myhre on a shoe-string budget in collaboration with community organizers at the National Latino Research Center. It screened at a series of community forums about mass incarceration in San Diego County and the Silicon Valley. English and Spanish with subtitles. This project was made possible with support from Cal Humanities, a non-profit partner of the National Endowment for the Humanities. Visit calhum.org. Any views, findings, conclusions, or recommendations expressed in this documentary do not necessarily represent those of Cal Humanities or the National Endowment for the Humanities. Homie Universidad Popular cultivates education among incarcerated students creating a future beyond prison walls. Learn more about Homie UP. If you would like to screen this film in its entirety, please email jennifer.r.myhre@gmail.com.

Documentary short about Seattle based fiber artist, Rachel Brumer.  2014.  To learn more about Rachel Brumer, visit her website: http://www.rachelbrumer.com.  Photographed and edited by Jennifer R. Myhre.

Documentary short about San Jose based musician Benjamin Henderson.  2013.  Photographed by Jennifer R. Myhre and Elizabeth Mjelde.  Edited by Jennifer R. Myhre.  Music by Benjamin Henderson and Brother Grand.

This was the first of the artist profiles that I make for fun, featuring painter George Long.  To learn more about George, visit his website at http://georgelong.jimdo.com/.