Dave Isay

StoryCorps is the vehicle by which Dave celebrates and explores the lives of everyday people from coast to coast. StoryCorps was honored with a rare institutional Peabody Award in 2007, and received Peabody and Columbia DuPont Awards for its coverage of the 10th anniversary of 9/11. In 2013, StoryCorps won the MacArthur Award for Creative and Effective Institutions.

Since its inception in 2003, Dave and the StoryCorps team have worked tirelessly to record history as it is told by the unsung masses. 800,000 interviews have been archived and preserved at the American Folklife Center at the Library of Congress. This number continues to grow daily with the StoryCorps mobile unit rolling into new communities and the growing number of StoryBooth locations recording around the country. Weekly, millions of listeners experience these stories on NPR’s Morning Edition.

Isay’s work is held in the highest regard and continues to garner acclaim. In addition to his broadcasting honors, he is the author/editor of numerous books that have been New York Times Bestsellers, including Listening Is an Act of Love, Mom: A Celebration of Mothers from StoryCorps, and All There Is: Love Stories from StoryCorps. The StoryCorps book, Ties That Bind: Stories of Love and Gratitude From the First Ten Years of StoryCorps, was released in the fall of 2013.

When he’s not enjoying time with his family, Dave spends most of his day in StoryCorps’ Brooklyn Headquarters listening to heart-wrenching stories of everyday American tragedy and triumph.