Joseph Grady: Identity Reclaimed | 100 Stories #5

100 Stories: The Narrative Intelligence Project · Aug 7, 2026 · 55m · transcript

In this episode of 100 Stories: The Narrative Intelligence Project, Paige Williams speaks with filmmaker, writer, actor, producer, and social worker Joseph Grady about sobriety, adoption, cultural separation, belonging, and reclaiming the parts of a story that were once missing.

Joseph was born Blackfeet and adopted as a child into a white Irish Catholic family during an era of Indigenous child removal and assimilation. He grew up loved, but disconnected from the language, family, culture, and community he came from. Years later, through education, relationships, and the making of his…