StoryScope Studio: 3-Year Plan

Preserving Voices, Building Community (2025-2028)

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Year One: Foundation & Connection (2025-2026)

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Archive Preservation & Organization

We're processing and cataloging the last remaining Friends For All Children / Friends of Children of Vietnam archives - transportation records, administrative and adoptee files from the offices in Boulder, Colorado. 

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Adoptee File Delivery & Oral Histories

We are personally delivering adoption files directly to adoptees across the country from Hawaii to the East Coast. Each delivery includes trauma-informed support and the opportunity to record oral history interviews, ensuring adoptees control their own narratives.

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Key Milestones: 

• Complete 50+ oral history interviews

• Deliver personal files to adoptees nationwide, as requested/available

• Establish permanent archive repository partnership with Texas Tech University

• Launch public-facing website and digital presence

• Establish a support network of the adoption community

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Year Two: Deepening Impact (2026-2027)

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Community Building & Healing Spaces

We're creating intentional gatherings where adoptees, birth families, and veterans can share stories and find connection. These trauma-informed spaces honor the complexity of Operation Babylift history while building bridges across communities.

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Research & Documentation

Our work continues with the Hanoi presentation at the Texas Tech Vietnam Conference (June 2026), sharing our love ethic archival methodology with international scholars and expanding connections with Vietnamese communities.

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Key Milestones:

• Deliver personal files to adoptees nationwide, as requested/available

• Host regional community gatherings

• Release Invisible Threads Archive Book, October 2026

• Establish StoryScope Studio as independent 501(c)(3)

• Expand Vietnamese community partnerships

• Document 50+ total oral histories

• Attend Texas Tech Conference in Hanoi

• Attend Society of American Archivist Conference, New Orleans, LA

• Initiate the development of traveling exhibit 

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Year Three: Legacy & Expansion (2027-2028)

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Develop Archives Built on Love:  a love ethic methodology for archival practices

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Key Milestones:

• Deliver personal files to adoptees nationwide, as requested/available

• Launch traveling exhibit at 4 major venues

• Love Ethic Fellowship/Intensive

• Presentation at Texas Tech & Society of American Archivists

• Document outcomes and methodology for broader archival field

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Our Approach

Every aspect of this work is guided by bell hooks's love ethic—care, commitment, trust, honesty, respect, and knowledge. We center adoptee authority, practice trauma-informed methods, and recognize that authentic connection requires intentional space-making.

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This isn't just preservation. It's healing work. It's community building. It's ensuring that voices long silenced are finally heard on their own terms.