Storytelling Symposium

by YDS Women's Center

Conference/Symposium Arts Creative Writing Women

Tue, Mar 4, 2025

2 PM – 5 PM EST (GMT-5)

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In honor of Women's History Month, we will be holding a Storytelling Symposium on Tuesday, March 4th from 2pm-5pm! The YDS Women's Center recognizes the essential need for people to be producers of their own stories, art, and knowledge. We want to celebrate our community members and their stories.
 
From 2-3:30pm we will have the pleasure of listening to YDS community member Ryan Lindsay Arrendell give us a talk entitled "I Said What I Said: Hearing Your Own Voice & God's" in Niebuhr Hall! Rev. Ryan Lindsay Arrendell is an Emmy-award winning journalist, preacher, writer, and entrepreneur. She believes in storytelling & deep listening as powerful tools for healing & change. Rev. Ryan specializes in consulting & educating clergy and congregations about Abortion Justice, Access & Dignity. Her research explores how Christian women have navigated their abortion experiences, with the goal of creating a pastoral care guide, spiritual care guide & curriculum. She is the perfect person to share with us the importance of telling our own stories!
 
From 4-5pm we will be hosting an Open Mic in the Second Floor Common Room! The goal is to create a space where community members can artistically share parts of their stories. We accept any and all art creations whether you want to share a poem, song, narrative, etc.! We will have snacks and refreshments as we listen to what each other has to share. Please feel free to sign up to guarantee a spot in the Open Mic lineup: Open Mic Sign-Up!
 
You do not have to be a member of the YDS Women's Center to participate. We can't wait to have this storytelling time together!
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Ryan Lindsay Arrendell

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Rev. Ryan Lindsay Arrendell is an Emmy-award winning journalist, preacher, writer, and entrepreneur. She believes in storytelling & deep listening as powerful tools for healing & change. Whether she’s in the pulpit, the streets, the classroom or on the stage, Rev. Ryan leads with love to connect with those around her.



 



Rev. Ryan specializes in consulting & educating clergy and congregations about Abortion Justice, Access & Dignity. Her research explores how Christian women have navigated their abortion experiences, with the goal of creating a pastoral care guide, spiritual care guide & curriculum. Her forthcoming autobiographical collection of poetry & prose, Mine The Unseen, engages abortion as a pathway to healing while navigating the reality of choosing to have an abortion as a Black, Christian, woman in America. 



 



A graduate of Yale Divinity School, Rev. Ryan serves at Double Love Experience Church in Brooklyn, NY under the leadership of Rev. Drs. Gabby Cudjoe-Wilkes & Andrew Wilkes. She answered her call to ministry in May 2019 while working as a journalist for an NPR affiliate station in Hartford, CT. Originally from Washington D.C., Rev. Ryan Lindsay preached her first sermon as a teenager during a Youth Sunday service at Zion Baptist Church.



 



An accomplished entrepreneur, Min. Ryan Lindsay’s brand GLOSSRAGS gained notoriety for The And Counting Collection, a series of apparel that memorialized Black folk slain by police & anti-Black citizens. The collection, which debuted in April 2014, featured over 30 sisters & brothers, was laid to rest in 2018. ESSENCE, Fast Company, The Fader, Complex & other outlets have all covered GLOSSRAGS.



 


Rev. Ryan is a contributor to The Christian Citizen, a publication at the intersection of faith, politics, discipleship & citizenship that covers current events & contemporary issues.




 


 




 

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