Confianza Collective is a bilingual (English-Spanish) storywork studio based in Milwaukee, WI. We help health professionals and programs get stories written down about their work with communities.
Founded in 2025, Confianza Collective is a virtual storywork studio focused on supporting community-engaged health professionals and programs. We do this through interviews, focus groups, and narrative curation to provide a portfolio of writing for community health programs that reflects the voices and values of their founders and key stakeholders. To learn more about our services, click here.
We also facilitate workshops and provide custom storytelling support. Our signature workshop series supports promotores de salud (Latine health promoters) in writing for Cuentos de Confianza, a storytelling project focused on reproductive justice that was founded in 2022. More information on workshops coming soon.
FAQs
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Storywork is any work that focuses on stories. We help people get their stories written down through interviews, focus groups, and narrative curation.
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Confianza is a Spanish word that can be translated to trust and/or confidence in English. It is something that is important to cultivate in both community health and storytelling. The semillas (seeds) for Confianza Collective were first planted with the Cuentos de Confianza project, which features stories written by promotores de salud about their lived experiences and community work on the path toward reproductive justice.
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No, we can work with a variety of community health programs! We have specialty services for English-Spanish community work, but as long as your team members can do interviews in English, we’d love to collaborate and bring your story to life.
Meet the Team
We are a small team committed to crafting stories for community-driven change. We look forward to expanding our team in the future and will update this page as the collective grows.
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Founder & DirectorRachel is a bilingual writer and consultant who works with changemakers, organizations, and researchers to get stories written down about their innovative work for community health. She has over 14 years of experience as a qualitative researcher, educator, and writer focusing on Latine community health. Rachel also co-founded the Cuentos de Confianza project and facilitates workshops for promotores de salud and community-engaged researchers.
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Translator
Raquel is the lead translator (Spanish-English) for Confianza Collective. She works closely with each of the writers for the Cuentos de Confianza project providing editing and translation support. She also supports storywork projects that require translation between English and Spanish for a variety of audiences. She is currently finishing up her Bachelor’s degree in Linguistics at UW-Milwaukee where she’s a first-generation student with Guatemalan heritage.