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Brenda Flores Santiago Awarded Puerto Rico’s “Medalla de la Juventud Puertorriqueña 2021”
Voice of Witness is excited to announce that Brenda Flores Santiago, a collaborator on the VOW book Mi María: Surviving the Storm, is one of the 38 young people in Puerto Rico to receive an …


“What Was About To Happen”: Oral Histories from Puente Project Students During the Pandemic
In 2021, Voice of Witness partnered with The Puente Project to produce a digital oral history book capturing the experiences of the students centered in their work. The Puente Project is an organization that works …


Toward A Larger Freedom: An Oral History Project by Together Baton Rouge
Guest post by Phillip Norman Phillip Norman is the Communications Coordinator for Together Baton Rouge, a broad-based coalition of congregations and community-based organizations in the Greater Baton Rouge area working on community issues. Phillip was …


Looking Back at 2021 and Forward at 2022
In ways we couldn’t anticipate, 2021 was a rollercoaster of optimism and despair with the COVID-19 pandemic, the vaccines, and new variants. While it was another challenging year without much of the in-person work that …


10 Actions To Support Indigenous Justice and Communities
The Voice of Witness book How We Go Home: Voices from Indigenous North America shares contemporary first-person stories in the long and ongoing fight to protect Native land, rights, and life. Edited by Sara Sinclair, …


Unheard Voices of the Pandemic: New Booklet Shares Narratives of Injustice During COVID-19
The new Unheard Voices of the Pandemic booklet is out today! Order the book here. When COVID-19 was declared a pandemic in early 2020, early media coverage characterized the disease as a “great equalizer.” As …


10 Things You Can Do To Support Voice of Witness
Here are ten things you can do to further your partnership with Voice of Witness and support ethics-driven human rights storytelling. 1. Read. Check out the entire Voice of Witness Book Series and commit to …


The Hear/Say Project: Creating Space for Stories about Aging and Dementia
Guest Post by Roger Coble Roger Coble is a recent graduate from UC Berkeley who participated in the hear/say course that Voice of Witness coordinates with the Global Brain Health Institute (GBHI) at the University …