The Friendlier City Project

MEET THE STORYTELLERS! 🎭🌈 Our final storyteller, Kayla Straight!

Kayla Straight spends her days as the Program Director for NAMI Greater Wheeling, helping people navigate mental health challenges, training crisis responders, and reminding everyone that it's okay to ask for help. Turns out, laughing helps too.
When she's not working, she is a wife raising two daughters, wrangling goats, sheep, chickens, and rescue dogs on her family's homestead, volunteering with 4-H, running races she willingly signed up for, and attending bootcamp fitness classes where she regularly questions every life decision that brought her there.

If you've ever wondered what happens when a mental health advocate gets handed a microphone instead of a PowerPoint... you're about to find out.

ABOUT THE EVENT:
Partnering with NAMI Wheeling, "What Is Your Q***r Storytelling" is a dynamic night of comedy and storytelling. We are bringing 6 local, newly minted comedians to the stage to share their thoughts and experiences on being part of the LGBTQ community. Coached by storytelling & comedy expert facilitator Aidan Park, the cast will share their stories to an eager crowd in support of TWO organizations making a difference in the Ohio Valley.
Tickets are on sale now! https://givebutter.com/namifcp-fundraiser-xcacru

MEET THE STORYTELLERS! 🎭🌈 Next up, Nic Cochran!

Nic Cochran is a Wheeling, WV transplant who moved to the Ohio Valley in 2014 from Marietta, Ohio. He moved to Wheeling to attend school at Wheeling (Jesuit) University where he earned a Bachelor of science in psychology. He currently serves as the director of YSS Inc. – Recovery Homes and holds an MSW from Ohio University. He is also a therapist with Harmony. Nic is an advocate for people with mental health issues in general and substance use disorders in particular. In his free time, Nic is a horticulture enthusiast and proud cat dad of two.

ABOUT THE EVENT:
Partnering with NAMI Wheeling, "What Is Your Q***r Storytelling" is a dynamic night of comedy and storytelling. We are bringing 6 local, newly minted comedians to the stage to share their thoughts and experiences on being part of the LGBTQ community. Coached by storytelling & comedy expert facilitator Aidan Park,the cast will share their stories to an eager crowd in support of TWO organizations making a difference in the Ohio Valley.

Tickets are on sale now! https://givebutter.com/namifcp-fundraiser-xcacru