About Us

•  Karen Daly is President of the  Sacramento Storytellers Guild .   She has been a member of the Guild since 2010 but has told stories all her life. She admits she has a great imagination and would make up stories when she was young.  This continued when she had children and worked at their preschool and then elementary school. She joined Toastmasters International in 1990 in Redding, CA  which gave her an open format to tell stories. She is a member and officer of the Aesop's Fablers Toastmasters Club. Karen has been Secretary, Treasurer, and Vice  President  of the Sacramento Storytellers Guild. 

• Ed Lewis is a Board Member at large. He is a storytelling "groupie" attending as many storytelling events as possible.  He is a member of the Storytelling Association of California.   Ed is a retired Early Childhood Education professor and has taught storytelling classes for teachers and had the good fortune of telling stories to children as Eddie Spaghetti and adults throughout the world during his summer vacations.  It has been a true pleasure for Ed to share personal stories and tall tales to adult audiences since 1994.

• Vicki Carrol is a Board Member at Large. She is an outstanding poet and has taken up storytelling as a natural adjunct to her poetic propensities. She is our membership secretary and also functions as our selfless hostess at the monthly programs bringing refreshments for all to enjoy. 

• Adele Zagofsky, Board Member at Large,  was raised in New York City, and lived in Pennsylvania for most of her adult life. She followed  her daughters to California, where they all settled. Adele, a retired computer nerd, is now an avid gardener, mosaic artist and loves to experiment with food.  She has always been making others laugh, but didn’t realize it was a form of storytelling til her husband dragged her to a Storytelling Guild meeting a number of years ago. She is currently secretary of the Sacramento Storytellers Guild. 

• Walter Wilson, Board Member at Large,  is a third generation Californian on both sides of his family, going back to the 1880’s. He is retired and came to Storytelling through his participation in Toastmasters.  He enjoys telling stories and is delighted to have found the Sacramento Storytellers Guild.  One of his passions is history, and he particularly enjoys telling stories about  unusual historical events. He also enjoys telling Folk Tales, Fables, Tall Tales and Narrative Poems.

• Suzon Lucore is a brand-creating powerhouse with a knack for weaving stories into unforgettable marketing experiences. From traditional print to digital wizardry, she’s done it all—and can’t wait to sprinkle her artistic flair on the next big project. Founder and Creative Director of Connected Now, Suzon’s two-decade career in Sacramento has earned her a slew of prestigious awards and enough industry cred to fill a trophy case.  Beyond marketing, Suzon’s passions include fine arts, cooking  up competition  -worthy dishes, storytelling, and improv comedy. Her painting “19 Faces of COVID-19” gained national attention, proving she’s as bold with a brush as she is with a branding strategy.  Suzon is in charge of marketing, on the Festival Committee, and designs the programs for the Guild.

•    Manuel Camacho  is the author of Tienes Papeles?/Got Papers? bilingual edition, a collection of short stories about coming across the border as an undocumented immigrat and living in the US. He is also the author of a book of poems- Todo es normal/Everything is Normal,bilingual edition.  He currently teaches Spanish for Spanish at San Joaquin Delta College in Stockton, CA.  

• New Board Members 2025- Bios Pending
•    John Patterson
•    Michelle Woods
   

• The Sacramento Storytellers Guild began informally in 1982, with a few    storytellers meeting in people’s homes. 
• Sometime thereafter,  the group  started gathering and performing in the Martin Luther King Library in South Sacramento, and the Effie Yeaw Nature Center in North Sacramento. Everyone was welcome to attend and tell a story if they wished.
• Members of the group also  wanted a time to share developing work and to experiment so the group started hosting members-only meetings in their homes as well. Among them- Mary McGrath, Carol Lerner, Gail Ryall, Dick and Judy Kinter, Elizabeth Gibson and Jan Yates.
• These locations were very scattered, so a central location was sought. The McKinley Library became the home of the performance meetings. About that time the Sacramento Storytellers Guild incorporated and adopted its current name.  
• McKinley Library was closed for major remodeling and another home was sought for the Guild meetings. For a time  Luna’s Café and then the Sacramento Youth Hostel hosted performances.   Members-only meetings continued in storytellers homes.
• As circumstances changed, the Guild used space at Musician Hall on Del Paso Boulevard before moving the to the Hart Senior Center. When the Hart Center raised the rent of its meeting rooms beyond the means of the Guild, Eskaton Monroe Lodge on Freeport Blvd offered their facilities to at no charge. 
• Because of the COVID pandemic, the Eskaton Lodge was no longer available.   The Sacramento Poetry Center in Midtown Sacramento graciously offered us a  NEW AND IMPROVED HOME FOR OUR MONTHLY PROGRAMS, and programs have been held there since the end of the Covid shutdown .
• We are a resilient bunch, committed to storytelling at any cost. You can expect our history to keep going on and on.

The Sacramento Storytellers Guild (Guild) is to promote  quality storytelling through performance, education and community interaction. Storytelling is an age-old art. Traditionally it was  the principle means for imparting news and knowledge, and it remains   a powerful tool for communicating history and values, as stories come from every culture, time, and place. Storytelling involves the projection of mental, descriptive and emotional images using the spoken word, signs, and gesture. Its interactive quality heightens it effectiveness for educational and literary uses, involving the listener as well as the storyteller. 

• The Guild provides support to storytellers through with storytelling venues, training, and informational programs. The Guild provides professional level artistic interaction to the develop storytellers, as well as storytelling resources for the community, through educational programs, training, research, productions, and referrals. The Guild offers periodic classes in storytelling, and publishes a monthly summary of its programs, providing information on local, regional, and national storytelling events. The Guild also maintains a current list of storytellers available to the community. 
• The Guild promotes and enhances storytelling in the community through educational programs regarding storytelling, encouragement of development of storytelling programs, cultivation of interest in all storytelling literatures and purposed writings, service as a liaison between storytellers and storytelling groups and the community, training and information services, and referral programs to match storytellers with school, library, recreational and entertainment, and community groups. 
• The Sacramento Storytellers Guild  provides performances in the community on a consistent basis, and periodic special events at a variety of locations, featuring a broad spectrum of storytellers and storytelling experiences. More informal meetings will be held for story swap and critique among storytellers. 
• The Guild maintains resources for storytellers of every level of experience and will assist and facilitate other community groups relative to storytelling. Through all these activities, the Sacramento Storytellers Guild works to preserve the art of storytelling and promote its revival, providing high quality storytelling services to all sectors of the community through:
• 1. Storytelling programs of a variety of sources and styles 
• 2. Educational programs to inform the community about storytelling in schools, libraries, recreational facilities and private locations 
• 3. Training programs to encourage new storytellers of every age, and 
• 4. Referral services to match storytellers with community groups.