DIGITAL STORYTELLING IN A DUAL PANDEMIC 

One of our first projects as a lab, this arts-based study was born out of the unprecedented circumstances of the COVID-19 pandemic and the public reckoning with anti-Black racism and state-sponsored police violence, as well as the need to strengthen the youth-adult partnership at the core of the YWL. We partnered with StoryCentre Canada, who facilitated a digital storytelling workshop series with the entire YWL team. The workshops focused on building community and connectedness as a group and helped us to collectively draft our story scripts and curate our own individual digital stories. Our team then celebrated the completion of the workshop series by showcasing our digital creations with each other in a screening, and we have shared some of these digital stories on our Instagram and website. We conducted follow-up research on this process to inform adaptations to the digital storytelling model when working with young people. Stay tuned, as we look forward to sharing more of our research findings from this project.