At Yale, a Born Storyteller Shifted Her Focus to Filmmaking — and to Stories that ‘Do Good’

At Yale, a born storyteller shifted her focus to filmmaking — and to stories that ‘do good’

At Yale, Zoë Colfax combined a love of storytelling with her interest in African American studies. It also led her to a new life behind the camera.

Listening between the lines

My greatest talent is storytelling.  I believe in the power of narratives to not just inform but also to connect, and journalism sets the stage for this talent to flourish.  I used to think of storytelling as a grand process, at the end of which tears would be shed or shivers would ripple through the reader.  This perspective shifted when I had the opportunity to write a teacher feature story about Kathy Bevill, one of the longest-tenured educat…