Crafting Stories
That Foster
Curiosity and Love
We
Build
Narratives
Co-Creating a Culture
of Belonging
Stories
can
change
the
world
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Stories can change the world ✶
Our Approach
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Narrative Building
We are interested in elevating a public narrative that leverages pop culture and media to inspire a culture of belonging for all. At the heart of our work are the practices and ethics of curiosity and love.
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Storytelling
We are on a mission to create compelling, character-driven, and original stories that integrate these messages and narratives into public formats: social media, TV, theater, experiential, and other forms of media.
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Amplify
These stories need to also reach people. We build in strong amplification strategy to reach targeted audiences on a niche or massive scale. We impact produce every project, to foster public engagement.
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Impact-Centered
We are interested in being rigorous, not just artful. We partner with researchers and institutions to analyze the efficacy of these story projects on attitudes and behaviors, e.g. through sentiment analysis and polling.
Our Beliefs
We can’t just imagine policies or systems—Culture norms and relational fabric matter.
Belonging isn’t just taught, it’s modeled to us by the media and culture we consume.
It’s not data that moves people toward action—it’s story.
How it works
Partner with us!
What We Do
We are constantly iterating on a narrative strategy that fosters understanding and belonging in the United States
We develop original stories in a multitude of formats (e.g. TV, theater, social media content, etc.)
We analyze the impact these stories have on the attitudes and behaviors of others, showing that these pop culture initiatives make a positive difference in society
How it Works
Your foundation or company works with us, a 501c3 fiscally sponsored project, on an existing or new initiative
We share our strategy and on-going updates on how our original stories are developing
Ideally, we continue to partner together throughout the entirety of a project’s lifecycle, from development to production to distribution and impact analysis
About the Founder
Scott is the founder of CuriosityEd, the Host and Creator of The Curiosity Mobile, an internationally recognized curiosity expert, TED speaker, and the award-winning author of Seek: How Curiosity Can Transform Your Life and Change the World.
His life’s work focuses on how we can strengthen our well-being and relationships, including as a Fellow at UC Berkeley’s Greater Good Science Center and as the Head of Curiosity Cultivation at the Eames Institute.
Scott has worked with directors and writers at Pixar on a Disney+ show, on a national campaign alongside musician David Byrne from The Talking Heads, as a music journalist for The Washington Post, and in partnership with hundreds of showrunners, executives, and writers at the Hollywood nonprofit Good Energy Project, where he co-founded the screenwriter’s Playbook for Climate Storytelling, which has been utilized in hundreds of writers’ rooms and integrated into procedural dramas, scripted TV on cable and streaming, narrative podcasts, as well as short and feature films.
Scott is originally from Hawaii, and now lives in Los Angeles, California.
