Lead Instructor: Laura Porfirio
Laura Porfirio is a lifelong educator with more than 30 years of experience in adult education, leadership training, and participatory learning. Her work focuses on helping people connect real-world experience to story, uncover their strengths, and amplify voices that need to be heard. 
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Her background includes:
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Adult education and leadership training across Arizona and nationally 
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Curriculum design and participatory teaching rooted in constructivist learning theory 
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Digital storytelling workshops that help people turn lived experience into multimedia narratives 
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Laura’s teaching approach is collaborative, supportive, and grounded in the belief that storytelling becomes transformative when people connect experience, reflection, and craft. Laura is fluent in Spanish, Italian, and English.
Founder & Host:
Angela Orlando, Ph.D.
is the founder of Wandering Writers Workshops and an anthropologist specializing in lived experience, tourism, and culture. She designs place-based learning experiences that help people connect travel, reflection, and storytelling. Angela opens each workshop with an anthropology-based lecture to situate participants in place and context and supports the overall workshop experience.​
