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Ann Searight Christiano
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Published in The Arc

·Jul 17, 2018

Why UNHCR is experimenting with communications

By Ann Christiano and Annie Neimand When we’re deeply invested in an issue, our first impulse is to raise awareness of it — to ensure that everyone cares as much about the issue as we do. …

Refugees

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Why UNHCR is experimenting with communications
Why UNHCR is experimenting with communications
Refugees

5 min read


May 12, 2018

The Virtuosos of Curiosity

A Commencement Address to the Spring 2018 UF Doctoral Class — For each of the University of Florida’s doctoral commencements, President Kent Fuchs asks a faculty member to deliver an address to the candidates. I was honored to be asked, particularly because I don’t have a PhD myself, and have great appreciation and admiration for those who do. …

Science

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The Virtuosos of Curiosity
The Virtuosos of Curiosity
Science

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Published in Science of Story Building

·May 10, 2018

Science of Story Building: A Few Thoughts As We Wrap Up

With Matt Sheehan and Annie Neimand One of the joys of working in a university is being able to access a trove of scholarship that we couldn’t have dreamed existed as practitioners. As we worked on this project, we often felt like Harry, Hermione and Ron exploring Gringott’s vaults. This…

Strategic Communication

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Strategic Communication

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Published in Science of Story Building

·May 10, 2018

Science of Story Building: Watch for Deceptive Cadences

Great stories live just at the edge of expectation. Consider your favorites. Do they turn out as expected? Not the best ones. Once, when I was on Capitol Hill with a Robert Wood Johnson Foundation grantee, we sat down to a meeting with a senate staffer. The grantee had built…

Strategic Communication

3 min read

Deceptive cadences in story- surprise and delight your audience
Deceptive cadences in story- surprise and delight your audience
Strategic Communication

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Published in Science of Story Building

·May 10, 2018

Science of Story Building: Create Space for Your Audience

We remember great stories by their rich details: a pair of sparkly red shoes, a jagged scar, a dress of a particular shade of blue topped with a white pinafore, a wardrobe whose back fades away to reveal a new world to explore. But the most compelling stories force us…

Storytelling

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The audience is often the most important character in your story
The audience is often the most important character in your story
Storytelling

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Published in Science of Story Building

·May 10, 2018

Science of Story Building: Use Emotion With Intention

If you work in a news organization or as part of a communications team that tells a lot of stories, this will sound too familiar: “We want to tell stories that pull at people’s heartstrings.” And that quest is at least halfway right: scientists at New York University have recently…

Psychology

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Use emotion with intention - we feel so much more than 'sad'
Use emotion with intention - we feel so much more than 'sad'
Psychology

6 min read


Oct 18, 2017

5 things you can do tomorrow that will matter more than protesting the white supremacist visiting our campus

Tomorrow a man who has built his identity and fame on hatred and othering will visit our campus. Our parking lots are filled with state police cars. There’s security all over campus. Most classes are canceled. We are on high alert. We are united in our anger, and in our…

Richard Spencer

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5 things you can do tomorrow that will matter more than protesting the white supremacist visiting…
5 things you can do tomorrow that will matter more than protesting the white supremacist visiting…
Richard Spencer

3 min read


Published in CJC Insights

·Jan 6, 2016

Why we’re building Changeville

In an interview with Rolling Stone about the musical phenomenon Hamilton, Lin-Manuel Miranda describes his moment of insight that hip-hop and the story of the founding fathers are inextricably linked: When a hurricane destroyed Hamilton’s childhood home, he wrote a poem about the storm that was so good that local…

Music

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Why we’re building Changeville
Why we’re building Changeville
Music

4 min read


Aug 24, 2015

The last time.

I wish I had known it was the last diaper I would change. The last time I would dial 215–453–1798. The last time Vicki, Jon and I would play Monopoly. The last time Mike, Chris and I would play Scrabble. The last time we would drink in Randy’s garden until…

Time

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The last time.
The last time.
Time

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Jul 25, 2015

My Spot on the Floor

Whirl means “to hear”. As I waited with the women in the balcony of the whirling hall in Bursa, Turkey, for the dervishes to begin their ethereal ritual turning, I skimmed a brochure a friendly local had offered. He had introduced himself in the courtyard as a literature teacher at…

Martha Graham

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What Turkey’s dervishes and Martha Graham taught me about perfectionism, mortality and finding a…
What Turkey’s dervishes and Martha Graham taught me about perfectionism, mortality and finding a…
Martha Graham

11 min read

Ann Searight Christiano

Ann Searight Christiano

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Ann is the Frank Karel Chair and director of the Center for Public Interest Communications at the University of Florida. frank.jou.ufl.edu

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