Storytelling Best Practices
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 …
Oral History in Practice: Celebrating Asian American Music and Memory
As part of the Oral History in Practice event series, Voice of Witness hosted a webinar with Rochelle Kwan, a cultural organizer, artist, and oral history educator, based in New York City’s Chinatown. Rochelle shared …
2024 Workshop Series: Oral History Storytelling Skills and Ethics
Storytelling is a powerful way to build community and advance justice through education and advocacy. Building on 15+ years of experience, Voice of Witness (VOW) has developed an ethics-driven oral history methodology that documents first-person …
VOW Pilots New Storyteller Initiative with Country Queers
The VOW Storyteller Initiative is a new program from Voice of Witness that aims to support editors from marginalized communities, regardless of their level of experience, who may be struggling to find mentorship or afford …
Cultural and Personal Identity • Education • Storytelling Best Practices • VOW Storyteller Initiative
Hear from VOW Intern Dominique: Reflections on a Remote Internship
By Dominique Janvier, Voice of Witness intern and University of Chicago student When I contacted Voice of Witness in early May, my expectations for the summer were quite bleak. With the coronavirus pandemic at its …
Looking Back at 2019 and Forward at 2020
In 2019, Voice of Witness had a lot to celebrate. We released Say it Forward: A Guide to Social Justice Storytelling – our DIY guide that outlines our critical oral history methodology – and Solito, Solita: Crossing the …
Creating a Brave and Safe Space for Storytelling
We at Voice of Witness know well that the process of story sharing can be transformational and life-changing for both audience and storyteller. But behind the simple act of asking others to share their stories, there …
Meet Our Summer Interns Margaret and Eliana
This summer, we have been fortunate to have four wonderful interns join us to support our work. In this post, two of our interns Margaret O’Hare from Haverford College and Eliana Swerdlow from Yale reflect on their summer at …
