Partnership
BBQ Without Borders: Celebrating Food, Community, and Immigrant Stories
This summer, VOW and our partner Gems Oral Histories hosted a Story Sharing table at BBQ Without Borders, inviting Bay Area community members to record and share their stories.
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.
Preserving Puerto Rican Voices: Oral History Training with NMPRAC
This month, Voice of Witness led a comprehensive oral history project planning and archiving workshop for The National Museum of Puerto Rican Arts and Culture (NMPRAC) as they prepare to launch an ambitious new initiative. …
Supporting Multilingual Learners with Intergenerational Storytelling
Over the previous semester, Voice of Witness supported a new cohort of students and senior citizens in completing an intergenerational storytelling project, focused on using oral history and ethics-driven, culturally responsive practices to build relationships …
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 …
Intergenerational Storytelling with LA’s Koreatown Youth and Community Center
Voice of Witness recently provided consulting support to the Koreatown Youth and Community Center (KYCC) in Los Angeles. KYCC works to serve the evolving needs of the Korean American population of the greater Los Angeles …
“What Was About To Happen”: Oral Histories from Puente Project Students During the Pandemic
In 2021, Voice of Witness partnered with The Puente Project to produce a digital oral history book capturing the experiences of the students centered in their work. The Puente Project is an organization that works …
