Education
A Warm Welcome to Diana Cohn!
The Voice of Witness education team is excited to announce the newest member of our education advisory board, Diana Cohn. She will be joining current members Gerald Richards, Nishat Kurwa, Katie Kuszmar, Praveena Fernes, Rick Ayers, and …
Dec. 2: OakTechRep Performs Excerpts from Voices from the Storm
Arts Alliances: Real Time Collaboration Location: SoleSpace, 1714 Telegraph Ave., Oakland, CADate: December 2, 2015 | 7:30-9pm Come join OakTech Rep, Oakland Technical High School’s award winning theatre company, as they perform excerpts from their …
OakTechRep Presents: Voices from the Storm
Oakland Technical High School’s award-winning, critically acclaimed student company OakTech Rep will perform a theatrical adaptation of Voices from the Storm: The People of New Orleans on Hurricane Katrina and its Aftermath. The group will …
Notes on Studs Terkel
“Looking back I think he was kind of a soulful polymath—responding to humanity as he encountered it, in the studio, in the books.” – George Drury on Studs Terkel On a recent summer day at the …
Launching Today: The Voice of Witness Sharing History Initiative
In celebration of ten years of amplifying unheard voices, we’ve launched the Sharing History Initiative. We are excited to announce that the Voice of Witness Education Program has just launched the Sharing History Initiative. This one-year national book …
Meet Praveena Fernes, the Newest Member of the Voice of Witness Education Advisory Board
The Voice of Witness education team is excited to announce the newest member of our education advisory board, Praveena Fernes. She will be joining current members Gerald Richards, Nishat Kurwa, Rick Ayers, Katie Kuszmar, and …
I Am Not My Parent’s Mistakes: Stories from Children of Incarcerated Parents
Sophie Edelhart Sophie Edelhart is a senior at the Jewish Community High School of the Bay in San Francisco. Outside of school, she serves on the San Francisco Youth Commission, a body of seventeen young …
Knowing Nothing: Curiosity in Oral History
By Joell Hallowell Joell is a writer, editor, and experimental filmmaker living in San Francisco. Her books include Lawfully Wedded Wives (Spuyten Duyvil, 2013) and Take Me to the River (Heyday Books, 2010). With Meg Withers (interviewed on WordMothers …
