Education
100cameras x Voice of Witness Storytelling Program for Students: Applications Now Open!
Apply now for this dynamic program to support your students in telling their stories through photography and personal narrative. The 100cameras x Voice of Witness program collaboration is designed to work in partnership with local …
VOW Storytelling Support: Amplify Your Community’s Voices
Building on over 10 years of oral history storytelling, Voice of Witness (VOW) has developed a methodology that effectively uses personal narrative to support a wide range of organizations and projects, including those focused on education, arts, social …
2021 Voice of Witness 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 over 10 years of experience, Voice of Witness (VOW) …
Teaching Asian American Stories and History: Resources for Educators
By Erin Vong, Voice of Witness Education Specialist and Program Coordinator The growing anti-Asian rhetoric in this country has hit very close to home for me, as a daughter of Chinese and Vietnamese refugees and …
The 2021 Sharing History Initiative: Amplifying Indigenous Voices
Apply for the 2021 Sharing History Initiative to amplify Indigenous voices in your community! The Sharing History Initiative introduces oral history and social justice storytelling to under-resourced classrooms and communities around the United States by …
Humanizing Oral Histories: Student Podcasts During Distance Learning
Through an ongoing consultancy with the San Francisco Unified School District (SFUSD) Teacher-Librarians Department, the VOW Education Program has been working with several middle and high schools around the city to develop oral history projects …
Introducing VOW’s New Curriculum Specialist Amplifying Stories of Hurricane María in Puerto Rico
Voice of Witness is excited to introduce Dr. Zaira Arvelo Alicea, the new Curriculum Specialist for VOW’s oral history book project Mi María: Surviving the Storm. Mi María is a forthcoming collection of first-person narratives …
Looking Back at 2020 and Forward at 2021
Needless to say, 2020 has been a difficult year. In the face of immense challenges, we are proud of what Voice of Witness was able to accomplish in collaboration with our dedicated network of narrators, …
