The Global Narrative Initiative (GNI 10) is an international youth-led research collective founded by Sophie Kehan Chen (Ymbetin House). We are driven by a core question:

Across history and cultures, whose stories are remembered—and whose are left out?

We approach narrative not merely as a retelling of events but as infrastructure: a system that shapes memory, identity, and power. Our scholars work span across continents to examine how narratives are constructed, contested, and silenced.

In Pro Archia, Cicero defends the litterae, not as ornament, but as a civic and ethical practice that shapes what can be remembered, recorded, and carried across time. We take that claim seriously: narrative is never “just storytelling,” but a structure of access, legitimacy, and public language. GNI 10 is more than a research program. It is a growing community of young thinkers committed to a more honest and inclusive telling of our world.