Storied: San Francisco …

… is a podcast about the artists, activists, and small businesses that make this city special.

Founded in the summer of 2017, Storied: San Francisco is an audio and visual documentary about people—artists, bartenders, community leaders, doctors, lawyers, and small-business owners—and places that make this city so damn unique.

This project is a collection of stories about life in San Francisco and the Bay Area. We want to further enrich the experience of being here by learning about the many people who've come before us, as well as those who continue to add to the feeling that this place is special. It's also about getting to know your neighbors through hearing their stories. And we hope that you'll be inspired by the people you meet here.

We stand with the BIPOC community, especially those folks in the Bay Area, and all who fight for racial and social justice and equality.

Head over to the Episodes section of the site to hear and read about all the wonderful humans and locations we've featured over the years. Please follow us on Instagram, Threads, and Blue Sky. We're part of the BFF Podcast Network. And we supply REPCO with podcasts from time to time. You can also find us (and subscribe) on:

If Apple Podcasts is your thing, please take a minute to rate and review this show there. It helps us get the word out to more folks.

You can also find us every Monday at 9 a.m. and again at 7 p.m. on KSFP Radio (radio signal is best when you can see Sutro Tower, but also available over KSFP's stream).

Here are the various ways to find and get in touch with us:

And it wouldn't be right not to give props to some podcasts that inspire us, so here you go:

And, last but not least, this project wouldn't exist without the inspiration and guidance from Erin Lim (founder and cohost of Bitch Talk) and Producer Char (of Goto Productions). Thank you, ladies!

Thanks, and we hope you enjoy!

 (Why our logo and website text were green in Season 5: NPR)

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We acknowledge and respect the first humans of the unceded land we call San Francisco—the Ramaytush Ohlone. We condemn the genocide of these and other tribes across the Western Hemisphere. We honor their legacy and history, and we support rematriation and sovereignty efforts.

Jeff Hunt

co-founder, producer, host

I moved to San Francisco in 2000 largely because of the music, art, and culture of this vibrant town. My journey into storytelling began in 2008 when I co-founded Muni Diaries. We produced biannual live storytelling shows starting in 2009, and in 2016, we launched a podcast.

I've taken what I learned with that project and used it as a foundation for Storied: San Francisco. I want this to be a place for rich, insightful, diverse, and inspiring stories. In the podcasts, people share their stories in as natural a way as possible: through conversation.

I love San Francisco's natural beauty, its diversity of characters and neighborhoods, its history (complicated though it is), its funkiness, weather, restaurants, and bars, among other things. I worked near Emperor Norton's Boozeland back in 2016, and soon met Michelle. I was blown away by her photography, and we hatched this project together.

The goal is to share what it is about this city—the people, the places, the stories—that makes it so special.

Photo by Michelle Kilfeather

Michelle Kilfeather

(co-founder, Storied photographer 2017–2023)

I'm Michelle, and I take photos of the storytellers for the project. My goal, similar to Jeff's, is to capture who they are in their own element.

I moved to San Francisco in 1999 right out of art school because I was creatively inspired by The City—its culture, its architecture, the mix of people here, and the worldliness of The City.

When San Francisco started to change in the early 2010s, I felt the need to document the things that inspire me in this city as they were disappearing rapidly. Doing so drew me away from painting and illustration and into film photography. For me, film photography is a hands-on, more tactile medium than digital photography. It trusts you to go with the flow and makes you stay in the moment.

As for subject matter, I've lived in the Mission for 24 years. The neighborhood was a huge inspiration for my art, and as it changed dramatically, I started to document the people and the places of the Mission, and then spread out to photograph other parts of The City as well. This turned into long photo walks throughout San Francisco. For more of my street photography, follow me on Instagram: @luckykilfeather

In 2016, I met Jeff at Boozeland, where I bartended from 2013 to 2020. We talked a lot about our mutual love of SF, including the things we were losing. His art was storytelling; mine was documentary street photography. Out of those talks, we decided it would be awesome to combine the two, and the idea for Storied: San Francisco was born.

Photo by Gary Weinstein

Mason J.

contributing photographer

Mason J., an Afro-Indigenous visual, literary, and performing artist from San Francisco, is best known for his writing but has captured images since age 3. He ran a photo business from 2005 to 2012 and continues to freelance or shoot for enjoyment. His work has been featured in events like the GLBT Historical Society’s *50 Years of Pride* (2020) and *Chosen Familias* (2019), Mission Cultural Center’s *¡Afrolatinidad en la Bahia* (2023), and publications including *Portland Mercury*, *SF Weekly Online*, *Bitch Magazine*, *Vice*, *Food & Wine*, countless zines and late-night wheatpaste, and small galleries + art festivals.

Meet Mason in the podcast we did with him in 2022

Dan Hernandez

contributing photographer

Dan is a San Francisco-based photojournalist currently completing his undergraduate studies in journalism and business at SF State. As an award-winning journalist, he has served as an editor on the Golden Gate Xpress and will be working as a visuals intern for the San Francisco Chronicle in 2025.

Over the last five years, Dan has fostered his desire for storytelling through photography. Throughout his time reporting in The City, Dan has grown to love all the quirks and interesting people he's come across. He enjoys taking photos of all things newsy, adventurous, or simply portraiture. When he's not doing journalistic work, Dan is probably camping on a road trip, swimming, riding transit for fun, sipping on Baja Blast, or just roaming around San Francisco.

Find Dan on Instagram: @thebiscuitdan

Nate Oliveira

contributing photographer

Nate Oliveira is a San Francisco-based photographer, born and raised, with more than a decade of experience capturing The City. Growing up in a place that's constantly evolving, Nate developed a keen eye for documenting its quickly changing landscape—something he feels deeply connected to. With a style that blends authenticity with artistry, Nate’s photos tell stories that relate to natives in SF. Whether he's shooting the hustle of the city streets or the quiet corners that often go unnoticed, his images reflect a unique perspective shaped by his lifelong love for San Francisco. His work has been featured in the San Francisco Chronicle, SFGate, and many other publications as well as galleries around The City.

Press

SF Standard: 8 Essential Bay Area Podcasts for 2024
Creativity Explored: Storied: San Francisco podcast profiles artists and staff
48 Hills Best of the Bay Best Podcast 2021
Rodrigo Durán (S3E43) of Real City Ambassadors interviews Jeff. (September 2020)
​Marke Bieschke writes about Storied: SF for 48 Hills during the coronavirus shelter-in-place (March 2020).
Bitch Talk Podcast catches up with Jeff ahead of the 2019 Reimagine: End of Life festival.
Melanin in Medicine features S1E36/S4E25 storyteller Yeva Johnson.
Jeff on Bitch Talk Podcast talking about Storied: SF and even sharing a story of his own.