Rural Narratives

Rural Narratives is a podcast about public health, power, and storytelling in North Carolina’s rural communities.

In this series, we explore how trust is built, how narratives take shape, and how communities shape the systems meant to serve them.

Through conversations with organizers, strategists, cultural leaders, and public health thinkers, Rural Narratives examines who gets to define rural communities – and what it means to reclaim those stories from the inside out.


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Building rural power with Down Home North Carolina

In this week’s episode, we visited Down Home North Carolina, a non-profit organization that builds rural, multiracial and working-class power across the state through local campaigning and community organizing. ...

Who Gets to Define Rural Communities?

In our first episode, we ask: Who gets to shape the stories that define rural communities? Welcome to Rural Narratives, a new podcast about public health in North Carolina’s...