Migration & Displacement
In Deep with Angie Coiro: Immigration—Real Politics, Real People
Immigration expert Terri Givens (left) and labor journalist and VOW editor Gabriel Thompson (right) EVENT In Deep with Angie Coiro: Immigration—Real Politics, Real People Wednesday, May 3, 2017 | 12:00pm – 1:00pm Kepler’s Books (View …
LA Times Festival of Books: Lost Stories of the West
EVENT Lost Stories of the West Sunday, April 23 | 12:00pm – 1:00pm LA Times Festival of Books University of Southern California University Park Campus Los Angeles, CA 90089 Hancock Foundation, Signing Area 1 Free …
Magnum Foundation & Voice of Witness Partner to Educate Through Multimedia Storytelling Amidst Colombian Peace Talks
For over five decades, Colombia has been embroiled in internal armed conflict among guerrilla groups, paramilitary militias, and the country’s own military. Civilians in Colombia have faced a range of abuses from all sides, including …
Back on the Shelves! Stories from Undocumented Immigrants & People Inside the Criminal Justice System
We are pleased to announce that three of our most popular backlist titles—Underground America: Narratives of Undocumented Lives, Surviving Justice: America’s Wrongfully Convicted and Exonerated, and Inside This Place, Not of It: Narratives from Women’s Prisons—are now …
Dispatch from the Field: The Latest on Current Projects
This summer, VOW’s editors have been making big strides on their oral history projects. (Thanks in no small part to everyone who supported the Seed the VOW Story Fund Campaign this past spring!) Here are the latest …
Criminal Justice • Cultural and Personal Identity • Economic Justice • Migration & Displacement • News • Racial Justice • VOW Story Lab
Dispatch from the Field: Interviewing Youth Migrants in Chicago
Following the success of the “Seed the VOW Story Fund” Campaign in May, our VOW Story Fund editors are hitting the ground running with their oral history projects. Editors Steven Mayers and Jonathan Freedman have just returned …
His Life Hangs in the Balance
A Q&A with Solito, Solita Editors Steven Mayers & Jonathan FreedmanWe’re excited to share an inside look into one of our newest oral history projects: Solito, Solita: Youth Migrants from Central America. Solito, Solita (Alone, Alone) sheds light on …
VOW Panel at the Bay Area Book Festival on Sunday, June 5, 2016
Amplifying Unheard Voices: Voice of Witness Editors on Social Justice Storytelling What: Panel & Discussion When: Sunday, June 5, 5:00 – 6:00 pm Where: Dharma College in Berkeley, CA Who: Ayelet Waldman, Mateo Hoke, and Robin S. Levi, moderated by Natalie Catasús …
Advocacy • Criminal Justice • Economic Justice • Events & Webinars • Gender Justice • Migration & Displacement • Political Oppression & Civil Rights
