Stories That Stay

Episode 5 - Brian Caselli Jordan

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About Our Guest

Brian Caselli Jordan

Brian Caselli Jordan is an educator, singer-songwriter and facilitator who wishes he was some kind of 2025 Mister Rogers. Brian has taught for the last 17 years with 12 of those years in kindergarten or preschool and holds an M.Ed in Early Childhood Education from Temple University. Brian helped co-found City Love (www.muchcitylove.com) in 2014 and has had the honor of co-leading school assemblies and workshops about race, equity, and belonging with tens of thousands students and teachers around the country. Brian teaches a 1st/2nd grade split class at The Philadelphia School where he has taught since 2012 and is a proud father of a wonderful 2-year-old. Brian has been a trainer with Lion’s Story since 2019 working with schools and organizations nationwide.

  • "It breaks my heart to think about that."

    Brian Caselli Jordan

  • “There’s no throwing out your beloved grandfather. And also I’m not comfortable excusing it away.”

    Brian Caselli Jordan

  • “Telling the truth is how you honor someone you love.”

    Brian Caselli Jordan

  • “We’re going to be healed this time.”

    Brian Caselli Jordan

About Our Hosts

Shamm Petros, Senior Director of Learning & Development at Lion’s Story, brings training grounded in the organization’s 35+ years of racial literacy research and a story-forward approach to racial healing.

Dwight Dunston, a mindfulness practitioner and storyteller, provides the emotional grounding and reflective prompts that model racial stress processing through the body.

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Learn More & Resources

Visit Lion’s Story to explore our mission, training programs, and upcoming events like the
Resilience Literacy Institute.

Stories That Stay is a project of Lion’s Story, a nonprofit dedicated to building racial literacy through storytelling, mindfulness, and healing.

Rooted in over 35 years of research by Dr. Howard C. Stevenson at the University of Pennsylvania, our work guides individuals and institutions to reclaim their stories, reduce identity-based stress, and step into authentic inclusion—not as a checklist, but as a way of being.

Produced and edited by Peterson Toscano.
Mindful moment music by Dwight Dunston.
Music by Epidemic Sound.

Podcast site: storiesthatstay.net
Hosts: Shamm Petros and Dwight Dunston