From Scratch is a platform initiated and created by Azadeh Kangarani, and Masa Hilcisin, dedicated to storytelling through theater, visual art techniques, and AI tools. As part of the platform, the Mini Podcast Series was conceived, created with the understanding that every story matters.
In these episodes, you will hear from a diverse range of guests: art therapists, artists, activists, and many others who open up about their journeys, struggles, and growth. Together, they explore how the human voice can shape identity, inspire meaningful change, and spark deeper conversations.
Emotions as Catalysts for Storytelling
Peppur Chambers
Writer, Producer, Educator, Storyteller
Peppur is an international writer, producer, and educator dedicated to living her voice and inspiring others—especially women—to do the same. She created the women’s lifestyle brand Brown Betties™, which includes an award-winning web series, empowerment workshops, a dinner-theatre show, and her published novella Harlem’s Awakening, with its sequel Harlem’s Last Dance forthcoming. In 2019, she founded Pen and Peppur, where she ghostwrites books and provides copywriting and editing services for entrepreneurs and small businesses. A member of several notable playwrights’ groups, she amplifies women’s issues, social justice, and love through her work, including commissioned radio plays such as The Fire In-Between, End of the Line, and The Boll Weevil & Chester Higgensworth. Her play F/K/A Meridian was a top-15% finalist for the 2022 O’Neill National Playwrights Conference and a semi-finalist for the 2021 Garry Marshall Theatre New Works Festival. Peppur has also directed film and theatre, taught journalism, drama, and ESL, and is affectionately known as “The Hot One”—a three-time valedictorian, record-holding athlete, Kenosha Athletic Hall of Fame inductee, and former World Champion Chicago Bulls Luv-a-Bull dancer.
Learn more: www.PenandPeppur.com, www.peppurchambers.com, www.brownbetties.com.