Rural Narratives is a podcast about public health, power, and storytelling in North Carolina’s rural communities. In this series, we explore how trust is built, how narratives take shape, and how communities shape the systems meant to serve them.
Through conversations with organizers, strategists, cultural leaders, and public health thinkers. Rural Narratives examines who gets to define rural communities — and what it means to reclaim those stories from the inside out.
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How Access Shapes Trust in Rural Health Systems
In southeastern North Carolina, residents in Columbus County face some of the steepest challenges to living a healthy life. They consistently have the lowest health outcomes in the state. Like in many rural communities, people have to put in more time and effort to access public services and healthcare systems. And a lack of access […]
Building rural power with Down Home North Carolina
In this week’s episode, we visited Down Home North Carolina, a non-profit organization that builds rural, multiracial and working-class power across the state through local campaigning and community organizing. Guests: Taí Coates-Wedde, Director of Communications at Down Home North Carolina Jon Council, western North Carolina regional campaigner at Down Home North Carolina Voices: Tatiana Jones, […]
Who Gets to Define Rural Communities?
In our first episode, we ask: Who gets to shape the stories that define rural communities? Welcome to Rural Narratives, a new podcast about public health in North Carolina’s rural communities. In this series, storytelling isn’t just about the news — it’s a way to listen, learn, and understand how meaning is made. We speak […]
