Cynthia Kurtz
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Town of Riverhead, New York, United States
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Top SchoolCynthia Kurtz is a researcher, writer, and programmer with 14+ years building participatory approaches to organizational and community narrative. As owner of her consultancy, she designs and facilitates Participatory Narrative Inquiry (PNI), blending narrative inquiry, participatory action research, oral history, theatre, and complexity theory to help groups surface values, patterns, and decisions from lived stories. Her third-edition book, Working with Stories in Your Community or Organization, is widely used as a practical handbook for practitioners doing story-based sensemaking and conflict resolution. Cynthia combines qualitative rigor with pragmatic decision support tools and programming skills to turn messy narratives into actionable insight. Based in Riverhead, New York, she brings an ecologist’s training in systems and evolution to social contexts, noticing emergent patterns others miss. Her practice emphasizes collaborative sensemaking that centers diverse perspectives and strengthens community agency.
14 years of coding experience
B.S., Biology, B.S., Biology at PennWest ClarionM.A., Ecology and evolution, M.A., Ecology and evolution at Stony Brook University
Github Skills (1)
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Programming languages (1)
Github contributions (4)
cfkurtz/TerasologyTrees
Mar 2012 - Mar 2012
Contributions:18 commits in 10 days
cfkurtz/narracat
Mar 2016 - Mar 2016
Contributions:3 pushes in 1 day
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