{"product_id":"storytelling-with-data-for-cultural-riley-santiago-9798242761438","title":"Storytelling with Data for Cultural Creatives-Parish Stories: Data-to-Story Labs Project","description":"When numbers and neighborhood stories meet, something powerful wakes up. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003eParish Stories: Data-to-Story Labs\u003c\/b\u003e is a field guide for cultural creatives who want to work with data without losing their voice, their humor, or their community in the process. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThis book was built in and for places like New Orleans-and for every parish, county, borough, and neighborhood that knows it is more than a statistic. It treats \"cultural creative\" broadly: not just artists and writers, but anyone who carries culture into their work and connects it back to the people they serve-teaching artists and clinic staff, librarians and youth workers, nonprofit teams and neighbors who keep showing up. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eYou do \u003cb\u003enot\u003c\/b\u003e have to be \"good at math\" to use this book. You bring your lived experience; the pages help you add tables, charts, maps, dashboards, and public datasets to your creative toolkit. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eInside, you'll learn how to: \u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eRead basic tables, charts, maps, and dashboards without jargon\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eTurn one number into a story fragment, poem, comic, or one-minute audio piece\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eUse assignments like \u003ci\u003e\"What This Number Means\"\u003c\/i\u003e to ground creative work in local data\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003ePair numbers with memory, photos, oral history, and place\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eBuild peer circles and feedback rituals that center clarity, context, and care\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eTreat accessibility (alt text, captions, contrast, formats) as a creative practice, not an afterthought\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eDesign and run small \"data-to-story labs\" for your parish, classroom, clinic, or community space\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eGrow new facilitators through a train-the-trainer model so the work doesn't depend on one person\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003eThe book is written for both \u003cb\u003ecohorts and solo readers\u003c\/b\u003e. Each chapter includes practical examples, prompts, and exercises you can adapt for youth, elders, mixed groups, and different geographies and issues-housing, storms, transit, health, environment, culture, and more. It keeps the language plain, the structure flexible, and the focus on dignity and belonging. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eBy the end, you'll have more than theory. You'll have drafted pieces ready to edit-poems, vignettes, comics, audio scripts, visual concepts-and a repeatable lab pattern you can bring to your own parish or neighborhood. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eIf this book helps you create something-a workshop, a zine, a reading, a mural, a podcast episode, a lab of your own-we'd love to see it. When you share your work, mention \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eParish Stories: Data-to-Story Labs\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e and link back to \u003cb\u003ecrownlegacyprogram.org\u003c\/b\u003e so others can find their way into this practice too. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eYou don't have to become a data expert. You just have to be willing to look at what the numbers say, listen to what your people know, and build stories sturdy enough to hold both.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Riley Santiago,Eric Stovall,Adrian Flowers\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9798242761438\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Independently Published\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 01\/05\/2026\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 346\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.77lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 11.00h x 8.50w x 0.72d","brand":"Riley Santiago","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":48437626339583,"sku":"9798242761438","price":24.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_dc560d2d-3445-4b07-b889-097b90d672cd.jpg?v=1777162994","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/storytelling-with-data-for-cultural-riley-santiago-9798242761438","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}