Advocacy
Storytelling for Justice: Insights from EJW 2025
Voice of Witness was thrilled to be a part of Equal Justice Works’ 2025 Leadership Development Training!
Advocacy • Criminal Justice • Economic Justice • News • Racial Justice • Storytelling Best Practices
Storytelling in Practice: Fall 2025 Series
Join us for Storytelling in Practice, a series of intimate conversations with practitioners on community-rooted storytelling projects.
Embracing Complexity Through Oral History: An Interview with Maggie Lemere
In an interview with VOW Intern Claire Reisberg, Maggie Lemere discusses her approach to oral history, her love of mentorship, and her belief in making place a character.
Community Voices Initiative: Fall 2025
In this intimate and interactive multi-week course, participants will take a deep dive into the practice of oral history and ethical storytelling with Voice of Witness (VOW). Using insights and examples from our 15+ years …
“What’s your story?”: Jonathan Menjivar on the Importance of Mentorship and Storytelling
In a conversation with VOW Intern Claire Reisberg, Jonathan Menjivar discusses his career path, storytelling journey, and transition from mentee to mentor.
2025 Workshop Series: Oral History Storytelling Skills and Ethics
Storytelling is a powerful way to build community and advance justice through education and advocacy. Over the past 20 years, Voice of Witness (VOW) has developed an ethics-driven oral history methodology that documents first-person narratives …
Community Voices Initiative: A New Multi-Week Storytelling Course
In this intimate and interactive multi-week course, participants will take a deep dive into the practice of oral history and ethical storytelling with Voice of Witness (VOW). Using insights and examples from our 15+ years …
Meet the VOW Storyteller Initiative Fellows
We’re so excited to introduce VOW’s inaugural Storyteller Initiative Fellows. Our new fellowship program supports artists, journalists, and narrative changemakers from historically marginalized communities to develop their own projects. Voice of Witness provides oral history …
