Storytelling Best Practices
Storytelling for Justice: Insights from EJW 2025
Voice of Witness was thrilled to be a part of Equal Justice Works’ 2025 Leadership Development Training!
Advocacy • Criminal Justice • Economic Justice • News • Racial Justice • Storytelling Best Practices
Re-Thinking Oral History: Insights from IOHA 2025
The 23rd International Oral History Conference brought Voice of Witness to Kraków, Poland!
Community Voices Initiative: Fall 2025
In this intimate and interactive multi-week course, participants will take a deep dive into the practice of oral history and ethical storytelling with Voice of Witness (VOW). Using insights and examples from our 15+ years …
Ask An Oral Historian: Open Consultation Hours
Voice of Witness hosts 60-minute monthly working sessions—open to all—in which Fanny García, VOW’s Editorial Program Manager and Oral Historian discusses methodology, offers guidance on ethical storytelling and trauma-informed interviewing approaches, and answers questions about oral history practice.
2025 Workshop Series: Oral History Storytelling Skills and Ethics
Storytelling is a powerful way to build community and advance justice through education and advocacy. Over the past 20 years, Voice of Witness (VOW) has developed an ethics-driven oral history methodology that documents first-person narratives …
Community Voices Initiative: A New Multi-Week Storytelling Course
In this intimate and interactive multi-week course, participants will take a deep dive into the practice of oral history and ethical storytelling with Voice of Witness (VOW). Using insights and examples from our 15+ years …
Staff Spotlight: Interview in US Latina & Latino Oral History Journal
Our Editorial Program Manager, Fanny Julissa García, was interviewed in the US Latina & Latino Oral History Journal about her experiences in the field and approach to this work. In this interview, Fanny describes her …
Oral History in Practice: Storytelling with Country Queers
As part of the Oral History in Practice event series, Voice of Witness (VOW) hosted a webinar in conversation with Rae Garringer about their multimedia oral history project Country Queers. When the project began in …
