Welcome to the Recollection Agency. I am here to help you capture your stories and – if you want – create shareable content. My business exists to help people share their stories. If you have a vision for telling personal or family stories or starting a podcast, I can help you get from concept to completion.
A bit about me: I founded the Recollection Agency in 2019 after several years working for Columbia, Missouri’s public radio stations. I have been active for many years in local community radio station KOPN.
I bring my deep curiosity and seasoned professionalism to every interview. Through these experiences in radio I have learned how to work on deadline and as part of a team working to produce high-quality community-oriented radio.
Through the Recollection Agency, I have interviewed a wide range of subjects. Some are clients who want a specific set of stories preserved and shared. Others share stories that become part of my current radio show or my Missouri history podcast, Mo’ Curious.
I am insatiably curious about the world around me. When you hire the Recollection Agency, you get a creative producer who works with clients to create a personal story that captures your voice.
-Trevor Harris
Why I do what I do
I believe in the power of asking a question, then really listening.
Traditional and social media are full of well-known people. The stories of the un-famous deserve to be listened to and shared as well. I started the Recollection Agency in 2019 to help regular people capture personal stories that matter. Besides producing audio memoirs and life stories, I do custom production such as podcasts for my clients.
The Recollection Agency exists to help people share stories that matter. For every paying client, I do at least one interview pro bono. This service orientation means that everybody’s story can get heard. Through a collaboration with the Alternatives to Violence Project, I was recently able to record some life stories of inmates at the Boonville Correctional Center. With the men’s permission, I am sharing these stories with the inmates next-of-kin and on my weekly radio program. It’s stuff like that.
Meet me
I started the Recollection Agency in 2019, motivated by a belief in the power of storytelling. Storytelling connects us with our environment and our past while creating space to share our personal narratives.
An almost life-long Missourian, I attended the University of Missouri and got a degree in social work. I later earned a masters in geography at the University of Alabama, training that grounds me in place, a major character in many stories and podcasts.
I value people’s stories. That social work training taught me how to listen and ask the right questions to capture powerful, truthful and just plain fun stories.
I have long served as a volunteer programmer at Columbia, Missouri’s, community radio station. Since 2014, I have worked on-and off and on again as an announcer and producer at a pair of public radio stations also located in Columbia.
I have worked as a regional and bicycle-pedestrian planner. I and my wife, Lisa, served as Peace Corps volunteers in Zambia. I later served as the Peace Corps recruiter at the University of Missouri.
I live, garden and bicycle in Columbia, Missouri with my wife, Lisa, and dog, Jolene.
“I’m so glad we had Trevor interview my mom and record some of her stories. He made it so easy, and my mom loved talking with him. He uncovered stories we’d never heard and captured many that we knew but wanted to find a way to save for future generations. It was so enjoyable to listen to all of them, and even more comforting to know her grandchildren can listen to them in the years to come.”
David O’Brien
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