Hello, I’m A.M. Alpin.

What I Do

As a creative producer, educator, and digital storyteller with twenty years of experience, I guide individuals and organizations through life’s threshold moments. I've designed and facilitated workshops for audiences of all ages in schools, non-profits, businesses, colleges, and universities around the USA; my films and interactive installations have screened at the Library of Congress, the Film Society at Lincoln Center, and festivals around the world; and my projects have earned support from the Sundance Institute, the Independent Filmmaker Project, the Austin Film Society, the Southern Humanities Media Fund, and the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation. I’m a trained information scientist, researcher, and archivist. I’m also a mother to two children, navigating the complex world of modern parenthood.

Behind the Work

I’ve been honored with national awards—from the National Council on Public History’s Outstanding Public History Project Award to a Sheila C. Johnson Creative Producing Fellowship from Sundance—and have channeled that recognition into community-building.

As founder and program director of an independent nonprofit devoted to innovative professional development (2014–2021), I led a team creating annual international gatherings and year-round storytelling and skill-building workshops. I've developed and directed youth art and video outreach programs and built community and non-profit partnerships around learning and storytelling.

I’ve also crafted and delivered interactive keynotes—where audiences co-create narrative exercises in real time—and facilitated hands-on workshops at venues like the Made in NY Media Center, METRO Library Council, and Storycode, equipping audiences with practical tools to tell their own stories and navigate change with curiosity and care.

(M)othershift is where all my roles—educator, archivist, researcher, and caregiver—converge. It’s an avenue for witnessing, remembering, laughing, and honoring every facet of what it means to mother. If you’re at a crossroads of care or trying to hold life’s mess and magic in tandem, I’d love to help you find the story worth telling.