History
Young Storytellers Foundation was founded in 2003 in Los Angeles. The foundation was organized to support an in-school mentoring program which was begun as a grassroots effort in 1997 - the brainchild of three students at the American Film Institute; Mikkel Bondesen, Brad Falchuk, and Andrew Barrett.
Upon learning about cutbacks in funding for creative arts programs in the Los Angeles public schools, Bondesen enlisted the help of Falchuk and Barrett, and together they developed the Young Storytellers Program (YSP). These three writers developed a six-week, one hour per week curriculum. Together with seven additional writers, and school principal Sharon Langman, they offered the first Young Storytellers Program session at the Playa Del Rey School in Venice, California.
The program was an immediate success. The original mentors recruited new volunteers, and slowly they expanded the program, adding one or two schools each semester.
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