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Supporting Multilingual Learners with Intergenerational Storytelling
Over the previous semester, Voice of Witness supported a new cohort of students and senior citizens in completing an intergenerational storytelling project, focused on using oral history and ethics-driven, culturally responsive practices to build relationships …
VOW Pilots New Storyteller Initiative with Country Queers
The VOW Storyteller Initiative is a new program from Voice of Witness that aims to support editors from marginalized communities, regardless of their level of experience, who may be struggling to find mentorship or afford …
VOW Book Amplifying Indigenous Voices Selected for University of Tennessee Reading Program
We are excited to announce that VOW’s oral history book How We Go Home: Voices from Indigenous North America was selected by The University of Tennessee Chattanooga for their 2022-2023 Read to Achieve program. The …
Voice of Witness x The World As It Could Be
The World As It Could Be, an Alameda County human rights education program and long-term Voice of Witness partner, recently sat down with VOW staff to discuss human rights education, the Universal Declaration of Human …
Checking In With VOW Narrators: Where Are They Now?
Relationship building and co-creation with narrators and project partners are key to an ethical storytelling process. Recently, we checked in with two of VOW’s longterm collaborators to hear what they’ve been up to. Luz Hernandez …
Sharing Our Methodology: Oral History Workshop with Nearpod
At Voice of Witness, we not only work to share stories themselves, but we also believe it is crucial to share the methodology of our storytelling. By forging space for ethics-driven oral history practices—and embedding …
100cameras Program Impact: Students Sharing Stories and Building Empathy
Last year, the second iteration of the dynamic 100cameras x Voice of Witness storytelling program was implemented in collaboration with Telegraph Hill Neighborhood Center (TEL HI) in San Francisco. The program is a seven-class course …
Where To Find Inclusive, Real History in the Anti-CRT Era
By Jennifer Gonzalez in Cult of Pedagogy; re-published with permission We are living in a time when a segment of the population is working as hard as it can to keep our students ignorant of history. …
