Korenblat describes an experimental, semester-long collaboration between university Geography and Graphic Design students. The mission: create illustrated podcast videos about social justice topics. Inspired by the team at StoryCorps, students transform academic research reports into shareable stories using hand-drawn illustrations, narration, and minimal animation. Students develop practical reasoning skills and ethical awareness through collaborative knowledge-making and narrative imagining from real-world stories. This methods-based, constructivist approach can help educators engage students in complex sustainability issues without pushing ideas or positions on them. Students rarely connect social justice work to sustainability; here, students understand how social justice fits into broader sustainability themes. By integrating conventional liberal arts research with studio art and design practices of hands-on making and process, educators in many contexts can create learning experiences that develop critical thinking, communication, collaboration, and co-creation skills. Students show they can envision and advocate for positive change—prerequisites for working with mission-driven organizations. The illustrated podcast video process is inspired by research from Lars Samuelsson and Niclas Lindström. This process offers an adaptable framework for teaching sustainability through participatory, creative methods that include making that information vivid and coherent through storytelling.