Storytelling is a universal language that recognizes no national borders. Candace Wolf is a master storyteller and oral historian.

Candace has spent time in communities all over the world—collecting stories from indigenous folks in the rain forests of Central America and the Ecuadorian Amazon, itinerant circus performers in Mexico, goat herders in Italy, fishermen on the Canary Islands and the Arabian Seacoast of India. Candace listened intensely to rice farmers in Indonesia, textile workers in Egypt, and many other people who shared their stories with her. She has earned the moniker barefoot storyteller due to her fearless determination to travel all roads to all destinations in order to expand her treasury of folktales, myths and oral histories.

For thirty years, Candace has deployed her mastery of storytelling skills to contribute to the social well-being, emotional health and cultural enrichment of multiple communities: youth, seniors, intergenerational, urban and rural. She is the creator and director of Walking with our Elders, a community-based oral history program, developed as a pioneering model in the field of intergenerational arts and education. Candace is a teaching artist with the Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts in Washington DC and a passionate advocate of the power of stories to teach, inspire and preserve the history and accumulated wisdom of the human family. Her latest accomplishment is the publication of two books: a collection of international oral testimonials that speak to the universal quest for justice and liberation; and an oral history that tells the fascinating life story of an African American printer who desegregated the Printers Union in Los Angeles.

Candace is a proud member of two labor unions: Industrial Workers of the World (IWW) and the National Writers Union (NWU).