Bridget Bartolini is an oral historian, socially engaged artist and writer with a specialization in New York City history, place-based stories and narrator profiles. She has published profiles of narrators in Urban Omnibus, Gothamist and City Limits.
Bridget has conducted oral history interviews for the Columbia Center for Oral History Research's NYC COVID-19 Oral History, Narrative and Memory Archive, Queens Memory's COVID-19 Project, Educational Alliance's Nonagenarians in the NORC, and family clients. She served as an audit editor for Columbia's Obama Presidency Oral History. Her thesis project, 34th Avenue Oral History (a work in progress that tells the story of the 34th Avenue Open Street in Jackson Heights, Queens), was awarded the 2021-2022 Public Humanities Fellowship from the Heyman Center for the Humanities and the Public Humanities Grant from Humanities New York.
Inspired by her love for New York City and belief in the power of storytelling as a tool for social justice, Bridget created the Five Boro Story Project in 2013 to produce community programs that bring New Yorkers together through sharing personal stories and art inspired by our neighborhoods. She has produced more than eighty community events and has led numerous workshops on oral history, storytelling, advocacy and social change.
Previously, Bridget earned a Masters in Community Education and a Bachelors in East Asian Studies with a concentration in Japanese language. She will graduate from Columbia's Oral History MA program in February 2023.
Pronouns: she/her/hers
Location: New York City
Languages: English
Looking for: Full Time, Part Time, Freelance, Consulting
Skills/Interests: Interviewing, Transcribing, Teaching (workshops), Presenting, Audio editing, Photography, Indexing, Consulting, Curating, Multimedia; Event production, Profile writing, NYC neighborhood history, Place-based storytelling, Story circles and participatory storytelling, Journalism, Community organizing, Community education, Communications, Administration, Project Management
Email: bridgetbartolini@gmail.com