Rural Narratives is a podcast about public health, power, and storytelling in North Carolina’s rural communities.

In this series, we explore how trust is built, how narratives take shape, and how communities shape the systems meant to serve them.

Through conversations with organizers, strategists, cultural leaders, and public health thinkers, Rural Narratives examines who gets to define rural communities — and what it means to reclaim those stories from the inside out.