Loren Niemi *

Minneapolis, MN
Phone: 651.271.6349
Email: niemistory [at] aol.com
Website: www.storytelling.org/Niemi and www.thepublicpolicyproject.com

Loren Niemi has spent forty years telling political and community stories as an organizer and consultant as well as thirty years creating, collecting, performing and teaching stories for audiences of all ages. Loren teaches storytelling at Metropolitan State University and is the author of “The Book of Plots” and the co-author with Elizabeth Ellis of “Inviting the Wolf In: Thinking About Difficult Stories.” The public policy work he does is a fundamental transformative kind of storytelling with a focus on assisting individuals, organizations and communities to recognize that they have stories to tell and to consciously shape and tell them to better their lives and culture.

Niemi, Loren posted on November 29th, 2009