Young Storytellers
Matt Checkowski serves as the Vice Chair of the Board of Directors for Young Storytellers, where efforts focus on empowering diverse youth voices through arts programs. Additionally, Matt chairs the Brand & Marketing committee at The Department Of The 4th Dimension, a brand innovation agency founded to merge design with storytelling for culturally significant brands. Previous roles include Executive Creative Director at SimpsonScarborough, where strategic brand capabilities were developed for higher education, and Media Artist for the Dallas Museum of Art, contributing to a nationally touring exhibition. Matt's filmmaking experience includes co-directing a feature film that showcased at prominent film festivals. With a background in graphic design from North Carolina State University and a certificate in Disruptive Strategy from Harvard Business School, Matt combines creative vision with strategic insight.
Young Storytellers
Young Storytellers sparks creative self-discovery through storytelling. Our programs highlight young people as the center of their own narratives, emphasize that their stories matter, and celebrate their unique voices as the ones telling them. In elementary school, we use storytelling to help young people explore their creativity and imagination. In middle school, we use storytelling to explore their goals for the future and what challenges might stand in their way. In high school, we use storytelling to explore the impact their voice can have in their community - and, more broadly, the world. Young Storytellers works towards a future where young people experience, through the stories they write, the impact that their thoughts, feelings, and words can have on the world in which they live. We raise voices, one story at a time.