About Us
Evan Lee founded Story Source LLC in 2013. Story Source produces projects for education, and adapts communication training to meet 21st century needs.
Tell your stories with art and poetry.
Evan Easom Lee, Storyteller
Evan loves history. And history is all about storytelling.
He is a museum educator. He works closely with school systems and arts organizations to tell stories. He’s produced arts / oral history projects with funding from Georgia Council for the Arts, the NEA, South Arts, The Coca-Cola Foundation, and other partners.
His team has built a curriculum supplement demonstrating how to use the arts and literacy lessons to encourage more classroom time for social studies content.
Evan loves providing family entertainment with songs and folktales. Venues include: Southern Order Of Storytellers Festival; Cloister Hotel & Resort Sea Island; King & Prince Hotel Saint Simons Island; Jekyll Island; Capital City Country Club; Atlanta History Center; many arts festivals and schools.
Donata Defilippi, Phd, Producer, Educator, Curriculum Developer
Donata’s degrees are in communication with a PhD in curriculum and instruction. Early in her career, she worked with Title I schools as teacher, evaluator, and later consultant to rural schools. During the 1980s, she worked at Georgia State University developing student and teacher certification tests for the Georgia Department of Education.
As a small business, Donata spent more than two decades training federal employees to improve communication skills. Her video portfolio includes more than 50 informational videos on environmental topics.
Donata returned to supporting public education with Evan Lee and Story Source. The team has built a social studies supplement demonstrating a pedagogy that integrates art, literacy and critical thinking skills. They have also been working with Georgia Council for the Arts projects in rural school systems.
Joleen Frenchy Hodges, Educator, Poet
Frenchy dedicates her time to her love of poetry and the spoken word. A retired educator from Atlanta Public Schools, Frenchy returned in 2003 to her hometown, Buckeye, near Dublin, GA. In 2008, Frenchy co-founded the Legacy Readers Theatre. They have presented 16 annual celebrations during Black History Month.
In 2014 she published her complete body of poetry, Piece De Way Home followed by If I Ever Go to Jasper (a collection of memorials) and Shug, documentary poetry revisiting of the wrongful death of a 17-year-old cousin. She has published the products of the Readers Theatre performances and edited other books of poetry and short stories.
Frenchy has created teacher and student workshops to demonstrate how we all can write poetry. Participants find that within hours they learn to craft spoken word examples. Story Source workshops published her workshop results in their final reports to the Georgia Council for the Arts.