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manager of StoryCorps Atlanta, said.

The recording studio is inside the library at the Atlanta History Center with dim lighting and books to muffle the sound.

“We try to get the recording studio to feel like it’s late at night around the kitchen table. It’s a time and space where you have nothing else going on, you are not going to be interrupted, and you can have that kind of conversation,” Horowitz said.

Horowitz said StoryCorps has many different methods to record stories in addition to the StoryBooth. StoryCorps Atlanta set up field recording days to collect stories from a specific community in Atlanta and has a StoryCorps app for personal recording. With these resources, StoryCorps can capture conversations that reflect all of Atlanta.

“We think about what the archive needs. The archive has to be reflective of a community, so half of our interviews need to come from community outreach,” Horowitz said.

Out of the over 600 interviews held at the booth each year, a great majority are from community outreach. One of StoryCorps’ goals for 2016 is to engage the refuge community and continue the Historias initiative and Griot initiative, collecting Hispanic and AfricanAmerican experiences.

“A big piece of outreach is talking to folks and convincing them that the story they have is worth other people’s time,” Horowitz commented. “Once they are convinced, they are happy to share. It’s usually the folks who say, ‘I didn’t do anything’, that are the really interesting ones.’”

This year StoryCorps has partnered with the CDC to collect stories from over 2,000 full-time employees who responded to the Ebola epidemic in West Africa. True to their mission, StoryCorps seeks to archive the personal connection the specialist had to Ebola, with less emphasis on recording scientific research.

All interviewees are encouraged to sign the general release form so that the story can be shared on the radio. StoryCorps’ partnership with WABE allows for stories that meet the criteria of true storytelling form to make the air.

“We tell people your chance of getting on the radio is not very high – less than 1 percent of all stories go on NPR with a bit higher going on locally. But I guarantee that if you sign the general release form you will be in multiple archives around the country,” Horowitz said.