About Us

Janna Browning, MA, P-RDT is a seasoned Drama Therapist, Director, Facilitator with Healing the Wounds of History (HWH) and Co-Founder of Integrative StoryWorks (ISW). Janna received her BFA in Acting from Emerson College in Boston and her MA in Counseling Psychology with an emphasis in Drama Therapy from the California Institute of Integral Studies in San Francisco.

In California, she worked with Armand Volkas in his work Healing The Wounds of History, which uses Expressive Arts Therapy to work with groups that share a common legacy of historical trauma. Her time with Healing the Wounds of History includes groundbreaking work bringing Armenian and Turks together to address the shared legacy of the Armenian Genocide. While in San Francisco, Janna also worked, using drama therapy, with inner-city youth in the Bayview/ Hunter’s Point neighborhood. She co-produced and co-directed the award-winning film We There, in which the youth performed a narrative based on their stories. Most recently she co-facilitated the HWH workshop Facing Whiteness, a drama therapy workshop examining the historical legacy and identity in White Americans, as well as, Jewish Identity Now and HWH: Palestinian Identity.

Janna also worked with Community Performance International, a company which specialized in community building across lines of difference, using the stories of a community in large-scale theatre performances. She helped develop Community Story Performances in towns across the South, in addition to creating programming for schools. She helped establish the StoryTown Program in Jonesborough in 2011, which continues to this day.

In addition, she worked for several years as a Specialized Crisis Counselor for children and adolescents with Youth Villages; working with youth who are having suicidal ideations, homicidal ideations, or psychotic breaks.

Janna is co-founder of Integrative StoryWorks, a company that uses personal stories and expressive arts to heal individual and collective wounds.

Jules Corriere, MA is a playwright, screenwriter, radio show writer, and community builder. She earned her master’s degree in Creative Writing and Literature at Harvard. Jules specializes in Community Story Performance, a genre of theater which utilizes a community’s oral stories in performance as a way to promote greater understanding and develop relationships between people from diverse backgrounds. Over forty of her plays have been produced in the United States, England, Scotland, and Brazil. Her short screenplay, "Standing in Line," based on the story of an Auschwitz survivor, recently won the Paris Art and Movie Awards Summer Session in 2022, as well as seven other national and international film festivals.

Jules is the founder and director of the StoryTown Program at the McKinney Center in Jonesborough. This program includes a monthly radio show, which is performed live at the McKinney Center and broadcast on local NPR station 89.5 FM and on the StoryTown App, as well as a new, original play that is written, each year, based on real stories collected from local residents.

Jules is co-founder of Integrative StoryWorks, a company that uses personal stories and expressive arts to heal individual and collective wounds

Daryl A. Carter is a highly innovative leader, community servant, professor, DEI expert, historian, public intellectual, and fierce believer in the idea that everyone deserves dignity and respect.

Dr. Carter seeks to empower people through dialogue, engagement, and creating inclusive environments.