Barbara Ganley

In 2008, Barbara left the writing faculty of Middlebury College where she pioneered the integration of social media and digital storytelling in the liberal arts and service learning to found Community Expressions, LLC, a consultancy dedicated to helping small communities bring traditional and new forms of storytelling to civic engagement efforts. Her expertise in social media and storytelling to engage citizens and to foster belonging has brought her to work with small towns in the Northeast and the Rocky Mountain West as well as foundations, schools and nonprofits on local, national and international levels. Her research and artistic interests include the multimedia essay, slow-blogging and community-based storytelling. She gives talks and workshops around the world, and writes widely about storytelling, social media and lifelong learning.