A People-First Approach to Storytelling: My First PechaKucha

Watch or read my recent presentation on storytelling and the hero's journey for the PechaKucha portion of UT's annual communications conference.

The first person to share a TED Talk with me was my best friend Jeremy when we were still freshmen in college. Until this week, I couldn't remember anything from that talk beyond the man who gave it: a Doc Brown doppelganger named Clifford Stoll who moved around the stage like a human bouncy ball.

It was 2008—the early days of YouTube. TED Talks, which o…