Event Details
Please join Futures Without Violence for the third Storyteller Summit, presented by the Courage Museum, in collaboration with Actual Films. The program will feature a series of participatory discussions with two inspiring survivor/activists, Rosalie Fish and Anthony Shetler, both of whom have chosen to share their experiences with gender and race-based discrimination and violence, for the inaugural Empathy Mirror installation at the upcoming Courage Museum in San Francisco. Throughout the summit, we will take participants behind the scenes as storytellers engage in intimate discussions with one of the installation’s award-winning documentary filmmakers, Bing Liu, facilitated by journalist Sasha Khokha. Audience engagement opportunities will be embedded throughout the program to allow for deeper engagement with other attendees, as well as the storytellers and directors.
High school students are encouraged to attend and must be accompanied by a parent/adult caregiver.
Please be sure to RSVP as soon as possible. Space is limited.
Location:
The Open Square at Futures Without Violence
100 Montgomery Street, The Presidio
San Francisco, CA 94129
Date:
Thursday, October 23, 2025
Storyteller Summit Schedule
5:00PM – 5:30PM Arrival and Check In
5:30PM – 7:15PM Main Program
7:15PM – 7:30PM Closing Remarks
Dinner will be provided in a family style format throughout the Main Program.
Special Thanks to:
Deborah Sara Santana as our Presenting Sponsor, for making this day a reality, and for her lead investment in the Courage Museum.
Patricia Lee Hoffmann, for her long-standing support of FUTURES and the development of the Courage Museum.
For any questions about the event, please contact Brie Silva at (bsilva@futureswithoutviolence.org).
EMPATHY MIRROR INSTALLATION OVERVIEW
The Empathy Mirrors installation is the emotional pinnacle of the visitor journey in the Courage Museum. Within this gallery, visitors will engage with a range of storytellers as they share their experiences of witnessing or surviving hate, discrimination and/or violence, and the courage they each demonstrated in the face of adversity. Through empathetic listening and developmentally appropriate, reflective Q & A interactions between storytellers and participants, visitors will be prompted to consider their own capacity for moral courage and action.
Featured Empathy Mirror Directors
Rosalie Fish
Rosalie Fish is a Cowlitz tribal member and a semi-professional runner from the Muckleshoot reservation. Rosalie runs for Missing and Murdered Indigenous People, and competed for the University of Washington at the D1 level. Now, Rosalie is pursuing her master’s degree in social work and serves on Cowlitz tribal council.
Anthony Shetler
Anthony Shetler is a professional skateboarder, entrepreneur, and community advocate hailing
from the New Bedford/Taunton area in Massachusetts. Born in 1982, he came up skating in difficult circumstances—after his father was killed, and while his mother struggled with addiction, he spent years moving between shelters and the projects. Skateboarding became both a passion and a lifeline for him—that drive eventually led to being sponsored by major brands like Birdhouse, World Industries, Zoo York, 5Boro, and others.
Over time, Shetler built his own company, All I Need Skate & Apparel (short “All I Need”), through which he creates skateboarding content (videos, podcasts), holds events (like his New England Am contest), and works to support amateur skaters. His personal philosophy emphasizes resilience, community, and the belief that skateboarding is more than sport—it’s therapy, identity, and a tool for social uplift. Shetler remains active in skating, in running his brand, and in mentoring young skaters, staying true to the idea that “inches add up.”
Bing Liu
Bing Liu is a China-born, Midwest-raised filmmaker best known for directing the feature
documentary MINDING THE GAP, which was nominated for an Oscar, an Independent Spirit, an Emmy and won a Sundance Special Jury and Peabody Award. He was a segment director on AMERICA TO ME, which premiered on Starz and was nominated for a Critics Choice Award for Best Limited Documentary Series. He co-directed his second feature documentary ALL THESE SONS with Josh Altman, which won Best Cinematography at the 2021 Tribeca Film Festival and the Maysles Award at the Denver International Film Festival. His short documentary WHAT THE HANDS DO had its world premiere at the 2023 Camden International Film Festival. Since 2021 he has also been
working on EMPATHY MIRRORS, a museum exhibit in partnership with Actual Films and Futures Without Violence. His latest film, PREPARATION FOR THE NEXT LIFE, is a narrative feature produced by Plan B and Pastel for Orion Pictures and hits theaters September 5th, 2025. He was previously a member of the International Cinematographer’s Guild and holds a degree in English Literature from the University of Illinois at Chicago.
Bing Liu
Sasha Khokha is the host of The California Report’s weekly magazine program, which takes listeners on sound-rich excursions to meet the people that make the Golden State unique — through audio documentaries and long-form stories. As The California Report’s Central Valley Bureau Chief based in Fresno for nearly a dozen years, Sasha brought the lives and concerns of rural Californians to listeners around the state. Her reporting helped expose the hidden price immigrant women janitors and farmworkers may pay to keep their jobs: sexual assault at work. It inspired two new California laws to protect them from sexual harassment. She was a key member of the reporting team for the Frontline film RAPE ON THE NIGHT SHIFT, which was nominated for two national Emmys. Sasha has also won a national Edward R. Murrow and a national PRNDI award for investigative reporting, as well as multiple prizes from the Society for Professional Journalists. Sasha is a proud alum of the UC Berkeley Graduate School of Journalism and Brown University and a member of the South Asian Journalists Association.