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[VIDEO] Meet Soledad, a Youth Migrant Determined to Take Back Her Story
PGlmcmFtZSBzcmM9Imh0dHBzOi8vcGxheWVyLnZpbWVvLmNvbS92aWRlby8yMTY3ODc4NDQ/dGl0bGU9MCZieWxpbmU9MCZwb3J0cmFpdD0wIiB3aWR0aD0iNjQwIiBoZWlnaHQ9IjM2MCIgZnJhbWVib3JkZXI9IjAiIHdlYmtpdGFsbG93ZnVsbHNjcmVlbiBtb3phbGxvd2Z1bGxzY3JlZW4gYWxsb3dmdWxsc2NyZWVuPjwvaWZyYW1lPg==Dear Friends, A warm hello from VOW editors Steven Mayers and Jonathan Freedman! For over a year, we’ve been interviewing young people who are fleeing abuse, hunger, gangs, and corrupt authorities in their home countries of Honduras, …
From Our Cofounder: Help Us #TakeBackTheStory This May
Dear Friends, We live in a time when stereotypes and dehumanizing labels like “criminal” or “illegal alien” are having devastating consequences for communities across the country. But in the face of injustice, the most marginalized …
Dispatch from the Field: Planning our food sovereignty book with Thousand Currents
Voice of Witness and Thousand Currents (formerly IDEX) staff at the Thousand Currents office in San Francisco, CA during a two-day oral history training and book planning session. On July 27 and 28, the VOW …
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 …
A Story That Would Never Make the Face of a Lawsuit
A Q&A with Six By Ten co-editor Taylor PendergrassWe’re excited to share an inside look into one of the newest oral history projects from Voice of Witness: Six By Ten: Stories from Solitary Confinement. Six By Ten will examine …
“You Can’t Just Create a Beautiful Space. It Also Has to Feel Safe to Be There.”
A Q&A with How We Go Home editor Sara SinclairWe’re excited to share an inside look into one of the newest oral history projects from Voice of Witness: How We Go Home. How We Go Home …
Economic Justice • Education • Migration & Displacement • Racial Justice • VOW Book Series • VOW Story Lab
