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Our Mission

 

StoryScope Studio is a nonprofit organization dedicated to preserving historical records and amplifying unique voices through archival stewardship, oral history documentation, and public humanities programming.

 

We advance education about identity, displacement, and memory by bridging archival preservation with creative storytelling. Through projects like the Operation Babylift Collection—documenting the 1975 Vietnamese child evacuation and international adoption—we make historical materials accessible to researchers, educators, adoptees seeking their histories, and the general public.

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Our mission is to preserve what might be lost, create platforms for independent voices, and connect past with present through trauma-informed archival access, community-based storytelling, and educational exhibitions that transform personal memory into collective understanding.

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We serve charitable and educational purposes by:

• Preserving historically significant documents for future generations

• Capturing first-person narratives before they are lost

• Educating the public about complex historical events and their ongoing impact

• Supporting individuals (particularly adoptees and displaced persons) in accessing their personal histories

• Creating dialogue about adoption ethics, refugee experiences, and cultural identity

 

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Core Values

1. Education Through Story
We believe storytelling is a powerful educational tool that builds empathy, critical thinking, and historical understanding. Every story we preserve—from adoption records to oral histories—serves to educate the public about the human impact of war, displacement, family separation, and identity formation.
Alignment with 501(c)(3): Advances education

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2. Preservation as Public Service
We safeguard personal and historical archives as public resources for education, research, and community healing. Archives are not relics but living educational materials that inform contemporary understanding of adoption, refugee experiences, and humanitarian interventions.
Alignment with 501(c)(3): Advances education and preserves historical knowledge

 

3. Accessibility and Inclusion
We ensure that historically marginalized voices—particularly adoptees, refugees, children of war, and displaced communities—have access to their own histories and platforms to share their experiences. We remove barriers (financial, geographic, emotional) that prevent people from accessing archival materials and educational programming.
Alignment with 501(c)(3): Serves charitable purpose by benefiting underserved populations

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4. Trauma-Informed Stewardship
We recognize that many individuals we serve experienced childhood trauma through family separation, war, or displacement. We approach archival access and storytelling with sensitivity, providing emotional support resources and trauma-informed practices that acknowledge the intersection of historical documentation and personal healing.
Alignment with 501(c)(3): Advances charitable purpose by supporting vulnerable populations

 

5. Ethical Collaboration
We work in partnership with adoptees, birth families, caregivers, researchers, and institutions, ensuring that sensitive personal information is shared ethically, with informed consent, and with respect for privacy. We maintain confidentiality of personal records while making aggregate historical materials available for public education.
Alignment with 501(c)(3): Demonstrates responsible stewardship of charitable assets

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6. Research and Scholarship
We support academic research, documentary filmmaking, and journalistic investigation by providing access to primary source materials. We partner with universities, archives, and educational institutions to ensure materials are preserved according to professional archival standards and made available to scholars studying adoption, refugee studies, and war history.
Alignment with 501(c)(3): Advances education and scientific/scholarly research

 

7. Public Benefit Through Transparency
We operate with transparency regarding our governance, finances, and use of sensitive personal information. We maintain public trust through open communication about how donated records are preserved, who has access, and how privacy is protected. We comply with all applicable privacy laws (HIPAA, FERPA, state privacy statutes).
Alignment with 501(c)(3): Demonstrates public benefit orientation and regulatory compliance

 

8. Community Engagement
We believe education happens through dialogue and shared experience. Through exhibitions, storytelling events, panel discussions, and educational workshops, we create space for public conversation about difficult historical topics including adoption ethics, war's impact on families, and the long-term consequences of humanitarian interventions.
Alignment with 501(c)(3): Advances education through public programming

 

 

What We Do

 

We create spaces where ideas and creativity meet. From oral history and archival digitization to live StorySharing events and creative workshops, our programs help artists and communities bring their ideas to fruition.

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Our Vision

 

To build an inclusive creative hub where stories are discovered, shared, and reimagined—empowering the mixed generations to connect past, present, and future through the magic of narrative.

 

 

Get Involved

 

Join our community of artists, historians, and storytellers. Bring your story, share pieces of your past, collaborate on creative projects, or support our archival and storytelling initiatives. Together, we can bring stories to life that connect us all.

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