Münire Bozdemir
Münire Bozdemir is an Acosta Fellow (2025–2026), awarded by the Acosta Institute with support from the Kellogg Foundation for her work at the intersection of education, storytelling, and digital equity. She is a writer, educator, and has been working on developing MyMoon Mixed Media Storytelling, a creative platform that transforms early childhood STEM content into multilingual, interactive storybooks aimed at increasing language access and narrative engagement among children and families around the world.
With over a decade of teaching experience across the U.S., China, and Turkey, Münire currently lectures in Communication and Integrated Media Arts at Juniata College. Her courses—ranging from Intercultural Communication to Digital Storytelling, Media Studies, and First-Year Writing through Miyazaki Films—reflect her interdisciplinary approach to teaching and her commitment to creative, inclusive, and globally conscious pedagogy. She also mentors student research on topics such as interactive journalism, empathy in news narratives, and historical crime reporting in small-town newspapers.
A firm believer in the social power of storytelling, Münire organizes monthly Moth-style story events in central Pennsylvania and has led international science writing and creative writing workshops with students and faculty in China, Turkey, and the U.S. Her projects have been supported by the PA Arts Council, the Turkish American Society’s Moon and Stars Project, and Penn State’s LaunchBox Accelerator. She has also designed faculty workshops on intercultural communication, created traveling, story-based ESL classes, and collaborated with educators worldwide to help make scientific, cultural, and emotional knowledge more accessible through story.
Her work asks how stories move across borders—linguistic, political, disciplinary—and how they can be used to bridge differences, deepen empathy, and design more inclusive futures.
Explore her projects at mymoonstories.com and humanlandscapes.
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