Proposal for the SoundCloud Fellowship: http://blog.soundcloud.com/2012/07/03/fellows
As alumni of the Transom Story Workshop (http://transom.org), our idea is to create and share stories about the working lives of people today in the US and around the world.  We also want to commemorate the 40th Anniversary of the book “Working” by oral historian/radio producer Studs Terkel.  The book is about “a search for daily meaning as well as daily bread, for recognition as well as cash, for astonishment rather than torpor; in short, for a sort of life rather than a Monday though Friday sort of dying.”  To honor Studs and his legacy, we want to re-introduce his methodology to a larger audience through a SoundCloud Fellowship demonstration project. We also want to help strengthen the “spoken word” community on SoundCloud and encourage others to make “radio stories”. Follow the project here: http://soundcloud.com/workingnow

Transom Alumni's "Working Now" for the SoundCloud Fellowship

Will Coley is an independent radio producer, social media strategist, trainer and videographer based in Queens, NY. 

I’ve been an advocate and organizer with immigrants and refugees in Charlotte, New York/Newark, and Los Angeles, as well as in Zimbabwe and Great Britain, for organizations including Catholic Charities, American Friends Service Committee, Jesuit Refugee Service and Homies Unidos. Through Aquifer Media, I design social campaigns and digital storytelling that cultivate community and civic participation, most recently for Freedom from Fear Awards, Detention Watch Network, Rights Working Group and Public Interest Projects.

Independent radio producer. I make radio stories.