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A Warm Welcome to Our New Managing Editor
Introducing Dao X. Tran (left), our new managing editor, and saying goodbye to Luke Gerwe (right) after four and a half years of amazing work. It’s a bittersweet time for the Voice of Witness team …
Germanacos Fellows Unveil Final Projects
In summer of 2016, the VOW Education Program launched the Germanacos Fellowship for Sharing History, which provides support for outstanding Sharing History Initiative participants to explore groundbreaking new oral history projects with their students. Thanks …
Gabriel Thompson Discusses Chasing the Harvest at Copperfield’s Books 6/17
EVENT Gabriel Thompson Discusses Chasing the Harvest at Copperfield’s Books Saturday, June 17, 2017 | 7:00pm Copperfield’s Books, Sebastopol Store (View map) 138 N. Main Street Sebastopol, CA 95472 Free RSVP on Facebook | RSVP on Eventbrite to receive …
Lavil at Printers Row Lit Fest in Chicago 6/10
EVENT Lavil / The City—Narrative and Oral History from Port-au-Prince with Evan Lyon, Audrey Petty, and Laura Lampton—2017 Printers Row Lit Fest Saturday, June 10, 2017 | 4:00pm – 4:45pm Jones College Prep/4th Floor/4030 (View map) …
Aesop LA Book Party 6/01—Chasing the Harvest, with Gabriel Thompson & Miriam Pawel
EVENT Aesop LA Book Party—Chasing the Harvest, with Gabriel Thompson & Miriam Pawel Thursday, June 1, 2017 | 7:00pm – 9:00pm Aesop DTLA (View map) 862 S Broadway Los Angeles CA 90014 +1 213 265 …
Chasing the Harvest Book Party 5/31—A Celebration of the Men, Women, & Children Who Work in California’s Fields
Rosario Pelayo, Jose Saldivar, and Beatriz Machiche. Illustrations by Jose Cruz. EVENT Chasing the Harvest Book Party: A Celebration of the Men, Women, & Children Who Work in California’s Fields Wednesday May 31, 2017 | 5:00pm …
[VIDEO] How VOW Editor Jimmie Briggs is Helping the People of Ferguson Take Back Their Stories
PGlmcmFtZSBzcmM9Imh0dHBzOi8vcGxheWVyLnZpbWVvLmNvbS92aWRlby8yMTc1NDU2OTI/dGl0bGU9MCZieWxpbmU9MCZwb3J0cmFpdD0wIiB3aWR0aD0iNjQwIiBoZWlnaHQ9IjM2MCIgZnJhbWVib3JkZXI9IjAiIHdlYmtpdGFsbG93ZnVsbHNjcmVlbiBtb3phbGxvd2Z1bGxzY3JlZW4gYWxsb3dmdWxsc2NyZWVuPjwvaWZyYW1lPg==Dear Friends, Like many Americans, I spent much of late 2014 engulfed by the story of Ferguson, a small town in Missouri that emerged into the national spotlight after a young African-American man named Michael …
[VIDEO] Meet Soledad, a Youth Migrant Determined to Take Back Her Story
PGlmcmFtZSBzcmM9Imh0dHBzOi8vcGxheWVyLnZpbWVvLmNvbS92aWRlby8yMTY3ODc4NDQ/dGl0bGU9MCZieWxpbmU9MCZwb3J0cmFpdD0wIiB3aWR0aD0iNjQwIiBoZWlnaHQ9IjM2MCIgZnJhbWVib3JkZXI9IjAiIHdlYmtpdGFsbG93ZnVsbHNjcmVlbiBtb3phbGxvd2Z1bGxzY3JlZW4gYWxsb3dmdWxsc2NyZWVuPjwvaWZyYW1lPg==Dear Friends, A warm hello from VOW editors Steven Mayers and Jonathan Freedman! For over a year, we’ve been interviewing young people who are fleeing abuse, hunger, gangs, and corrupt authorities in their home countries of Honduras, …
