Partnership/Advocacy
Storytelling for Immigrant Justice
Amid a charged election season when political candidates and mainstream media alike are highly focused on immigration, often using xenophobic and dehumanizing rhetoric, there is rarely space to hear from immigrants themselves. In this storytelling/listening session hosted by Voice of Witness and The Women’s Building, we’ll center oral histories and stories from immigrant and refugee …
Oral History Association Conference
The OHA conference runs from October 30 through November 2, 2024 in Cincinnati, Ohio. It brings together a broad range of people and practitioners and features a diverse breadth of oral history work and skill-building. Voice of Witness is leading two sessions: Radical Collaboration: Expanding Narrator Agency and Community Impact (Re)building Community and Honoring Complexity: …
Fighting for Missing & Murdered Indigenous Relatives, Looking For Indigenous Futures (Socialism Conference)
In this session, Voice of Witness will facilitate an insightful, intergenerational conversation between two narrators from the oral history project How We Go Home: Voices from Indigenous North America. Indigenous women’s rights advocate Gladys Radek (Gitxsan/Wet’suwet’an First Nations) and tribal administrator Ashley Hemmers (Fort Mojave Indian Tribe) will discuss leadership, advocacy, and transforming narratives around …
Storytelling for Social Justice: Using Oral History in Community and Movement Building (Socialism Conference)
A four-day conference featuring participatory discussions, lectures, and workshops organized by activists from all over the country, the Socialism Conference explores radical traditions and movements for survival and liberation. In the Storytelling for Social Justice session, VOW staff will share key principles from our ethical storytelling methodology and discuss how first-person narratives can be a …