Rowena Alegría served as Chief Storyteller for the City and County of Denver, founder and director of the Denver Office of Storytelling, from 2019-2024. The world’s only storytelling, cultural preservation and narrative change project created 9 documentary films, 100 short films, made 4M impressions on social and hosted 70 community events in which story opened into honest conversation. With 20+ years’ experience leading diverse, high-performing teams, she helps organizations take new approaches to old problems and grow through innovation, technology and strategic thinking. She was Naropa University’s 2024 Cobb Peace Lecturer, the 2021 Ricardo Salinas Scholar in Fiction at Aspen Words and the Jack Jones Literary Arts Victor LaValle Fellow in 2019. She’s writing a novel that plays with form and the history of the Southwest. She is available for storytelling and speaking or to help you strategize a new approach.