Education
VOW Book Amplifying Indigenous Voices Selected for University of Tennessee Reading Program
We are excited to announce that VOW’s oral history book How We Go Home: Voices from Indigenous North America was selected by The University of Tennessee Chattanooga for their 2022-2023 Read to Achieve program. The …
Voice of Witness x The World As It Could Be
The World As It Could Be, an Alameda County human rights education program and long-term Voice of Witness partner, recently sat down with VOW staff to discuss human rights education, the Universal Declaration of Human …
Sharing Our Methodology: Oral History Workshop with Nearpod
At Voice of Witness, we not only work to share stories themselves, but we also believe it is crucial to share the methodology of our storytelling. By forging space for ethics-driven oral history practices—and embedding …
100cameras Program Impact: Students Sharing Stories and Building Empathy
Last year, the second iteration of the dynamic 100cameras x Voice of Witness storytelling program was implemented in collaboration with Telegraph Hill Neighborhood Center (TEL HI) in San Francisco. The program is a seven-class course …
Where To Find Inclusive, Real History in the Anti-CRT Era
By Jennifer Gonzalez in Cult of Pedagogy; re-published with permission We are living in a time when a segment of the population is working as hard as it can to keep our students ignorant of history. …
New Resource: VOW’s 7 Ethical Storytelling Principles
Much care and consideration are required to ensure storytelling practices are not extractive or harmful to those sharing their experiences. The following principles are informed by VOW’s nearly 15 years of experience conducting ethics-driven oral …
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 …
2022 Workshop Series: Oral History Storytelling Skills and Ethics
Storytelling is a powerful method to advance justice, and an understanding of systemic oppression is incomplete without deep listening and learning from marginalized communities. Building on nearly 15 years of experience, Voice of Witness (VOW) …
