Cultural and Personal Identity

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 …


Classroom Spotlight: Creating An Oral History Cookbook
Voice of Witness has collaborated with Ria Fay-Berquist, a humanities teacher at Latitude High School in Oakland, CA for the past three years as her students have moved up through the grades. This year, in …


Voice of Witness Editor Ricia Chansky Wins Oral History Association Teaching Award
Dr. Ricia Anne Chansky, professor in the English department at the University of Puerto Rico at Mayagüez, is the coeditor of the forthcoming Voice of Witness (VOW) project, Mi María: Surviving the Storm.  Voice of …


Call for Narrators for a New Oral History Project: Stories of Resettlement in Appalachia
Voice of Witness is seeking people who want to tell their stories about resettlement in Appalachia. For an upcoming oral history project, Resettled: Narratives of Beginning (Again) in Appalachia, Voice of Witness is looking for …


Intergenerational Storytelling Project: Seniors and Students Build Relationships Through Narrative Art
Over the course of the 2019-2020 school year, Voice of Witness (VOW) engaged in a consultancy and collaboration with Sequoia Living, a local nonprofit organization that provides housing and services to impacted seniors in San …


Voice of Witness Summer Oral History Activity Packet for Students
Welcome to all students, parents, and educators! We hope you are enjoying your summer in any way you can. The Voice of Witness education team put together this oral history toolkit as a small project …


“Are You Colombian? Sorry.” Danny’s Story in Throwing Stones at the Moon
2019 marks 10 years for Voice of Witness as a nonprofit, and in celebration of this exciting milestone, we’re resurfacing powerful stories from every oral history book in our series. Though time has passed since these …


From the Archives: Rima’s Story in Patriot Acts
2019 marks 10 years for Voice of Witness as a nonprofit, and in celebration of this exciting milestone, we’re resurfacing powerful stories from every oral history book in our series. Though time has passed since these …