ABSTRACT
I have known the co-founder and director of the Neighborhood Story Project (NSP), Rachel Breunlin, for over ten years. We share a passion for creative documentary work and have often refl ected together on our respective practices, and collaborated on creative projects when opportunities have presented. The following text is an edited transcript of a conversation between Rachel and myself on 12 December, 2009 (updated for this book). It provides insight into the lived experience of one collaborative ethnography facilitator working with creative art forms, and the ways in which Rachel’s collaborative ethnographic practices have developed and formed into the organizational structure of the NSP. Given how much facilitator interests, experiences and agendas shape collaborative practices, understanding their roots and professional trajectories gives insight into their collaborative productions and the organizations that form around them.
