On the Outside
Ten people leave prison in Connecticut. What happens then? This is the story of why some people stay out of jail, why some go back, and how one state is trying to break the cycle.
Your Path to Our Health
Could a more nuanced understanding of the role of culture seed new strategies to reduce stubborn health disparities?
Strange Bedfellows
For red/blue lovers, politics gets personal. A self-filmed glimpse of love across the political divide aired with WSJ Live reporting.
Our Next President's American Dream
Looking beyond the election. Will the concerns of Trump voters be addressed? by President Trump? by future leaders of the Democratic party? Airing on Politico Magazine.
Learn to Earn?
Are technical education programs making a difference in the lives of people seeking a vocation with a future? Four personal stories complement New York Times reporting.
A House Divided?
Are we as polarized as pundits and politicians say we are? 30 percent of married households are made up of voters who share a life but not a political identity. A portrait of their red/blue union — and ours.
Degrees of Difficulty
Most college students don’t fit the traditional image. A waitressing single mom, a sales assistant, a policeman, and two veterans film their college stories and take them to Washington. A USA TODAY video feature.
Linking Learning to Life
Linked Learning integrates rigorous academics with real-life career pathways. What does it mean in the lives of Ruben, Amy, Zaci, and Brandon?
Election '08
Five citizens follow the campaign and try to make sense of what they hear from politicians who still dominate the political landscape. The series aired with Washington Post coverage of the election.
Working Learners
ACT Foundation commissioned Purple States to tell the stories of the Working Learner Advisory Council. The videos reveal what’s at stake in the Foundation’s quest to build a national learning economy.
Primaries '08
Five ordinary Americans on the campaign trail challenge politicians and each other. A multi-part series of op-ed videos complemented New York Times election coverage.
Yuri's Story
Open Society Foundations asked Purple States to help a grantee organization tell its story. The video was used to advance human rights in Ukraine, including the rights of transgender individuals.
50-50-50
From Election Day 2008 through the Inauguration, for 50 consecutive days, 50 bloggers from 50 states (plus one from the nation's capital) filmed the economic crisis as it looked to them. The Washington Post aired the composite segment.
ConnCAT
The self-filmed stories of trainee phlebotomists convey the human impact of ConnCAT’s work to create a pathway to opportunity.
Dismantling the Poverty Trap
The Declaration Initiative is using self-filmed stories from Durham NC and Yuma AZ to show what can happen when individuals decide to solve a community problem by investing their own time, talent, and treasure.
Here I Am
The Here I Am campaign is a global call on world leaders to save millions of lives by supporting a fully funded Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria.
The Farmers' Film
Giving cameras to farmers for the harvest season reveals the logistics and economics of producing local organic food. Their stories aired with a USA TODAY feature on farmers’ markets.
Stas's Story
Purple States producers travelled to Moldova to teach a family how to film their story for a media campaign about young people who are returning to their families from state-run institutions.
Five Years Left
Vignettes that capture the circumstances of life in ten countries. What is at stake when world leaders deliver on or fail to keep their commitment to meeting the Millennium Development Goals?
World Without Walls
A grand experiment in global self-filming: 192 regular people in 192 countries turn a camera on their own lives.
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