Veteran organizer Marshall Ganz trains people who work on community issues to develop their “public story,” because once you step out into the public eye, if don’t tell your story, someone else will. A good public story, according to Ganz, “is drawn from the series of choice points that have structured the ‘plot’ of your life—the challenges you faced, choices you made, and outcomes you experienced.”3 Why did it feel like a challenge? Why did you make the choice you did? Where did you get the courage to make the choice? How did the outcome impact you? What can it teach us?
