Speaking
I use stories, rather than statistics, to show audiences how individual memories connect to something bigger. And what we lose when those stories go untold whether it is for an individual, community or organization.
My presentations invite audiences to look again at the people, places, and experiences they think they know. Drawing on my reporting adventures, Wyoming history, and community storytelling, I demonstrate how one thoughtful question can uncover a story worth preserving.
Audiences leave with a fresh appreciation for their own memories and a practical first step toward saving them.
Stories Hiding in Plain Sight
Recognize the remarkable stories in ordinary life.
Connect to History
Discover how personal experiences reveal a larger community, cultural, or historical story.
Give Your Stories a Future
Explore ways to preserve and share stories with the people who matter.
Workshops
My hands-on workshops turn curiosity into action. Through guided prompts, conversation, and practical exercises, participants begin capturing stories during the session.
Save Your Stories
Use photographs, heirlooms and questions to uncover memories. Practice Jackie’s Circle Back Method to revisit overlooked details and discover the bigger story.
Create Your Community Magazine
Explore the people, places, traditions and experiences that make a community distinctive. Identify an audience, choose a story and begin shaping a plan for a destination or community magazine.
Real Results
Workshops can be tailored for libraries, museums, tourism organizations, tribal communities, conferences, and small groups. Available in-person and virtually.
Keynote
Save Your Memories, One Story at a Time
What happens when a story goes untold—and what becomes possible when someone takes the time to save it?
Through engaging stories, humor, and discoveries from her work as a journalist and historian, Jackie Dorothy reveals how everyday memories connect us to family, community, and history.
She invites audiences to recognize the stories they may have overlooked and reconsider the experiences they’ve dismissed as “nothing special.”
Audiences leave with a story in mind, a question to ask, and a simple way to begin saving their memories—one story at a time.
