Webinar
Community Voices Initiative: Fall 2025
In this intimate and interactive course, participants will take a deep dive into oral history and ethical storytelling, guided by experienced VOW staff and community guest speakers. Participants will learn about project planning and methodology and be guided through conducting and editing oral history interviews with a narrator from their community or organization. Participants will …
Workshop #3: Building Narrative Editing Skills
This session provides an introduction to VOW’s oral history editing style that combines journalistic integrity and a literary approach to honor narrators’ voices and highlight complex issues through personal story. We’ll share concrete tips and skills and provide an opportunity to practice on a sample transcript from an oral history project.
Workshop #2: Exploring the Interview Process
This session provides an introduction to interview practices, focusing on the role of respect, reciprocity, curiosity, trauma-informed approaches, insider/outsider power dynamics, consent, and more. We’ll explore case studies and create space to discuss challenges that may arise during the interview process.
Community Voices Initiative
In this intimate and interactive multi-week course, you’ll will take a deep dive into ethical storytelling and gathering first-person narratives. Participants will learn about project planning and be guided through conducting and editing oral history interviews with a community member, constituent, or colleague. You’ll finish this course with a completed narrative ready to share, as …
Documenting Refugee Stories
Join us for a conversation with Diya Abdo about oral history as a tool for documenting refugee experiences and advocating for immigrant justice. Diya founded Every Campus A Refuge (ECAR), which advocates for housing refugee families on college and university campuses and supporting them in their resettlement, and led an oral history project recording newcomer …
Advocacy • Education • Events & Webinars • Migration & Displacement • Political Oppression & Civil Rights • Racial Justice
Participatory Storytelling Exhibitions
Join us for a conversation with Mark Menjívar about participatory projects rooted in oral history, archives, photography, and social action. Mark will share insights from collaborations with artists, educators, youth, and community members to engage in meaningful dialogue and action around immigration and border issues. In this conversation, we’ll explore topics including:
Advocacy • Arts • Cultural and Personal Identity • Education • Events & Webinars • Migration & Displacement • Racial Justice
Liberation Stories + Public Art
Join us for a conversation with Mi’Jan Celie Tho-Biaz about using oral history to honor our past, make meaning of our present, and vision liberated futures. Mi’Jan will share insights from years of experience creating cultural projects and story-rich live events that foster community-building and meaningful social change. We’ll explore topics including:
For Educators: Amplifying Sanctuary Voices Curriculum
As we move into an increasingly unstable political environment for immigrants, East Bay Sanctuary Covenant and Voice of Witness are offering this webinar to support educators in bringing curriculum around immigration and first-person stories from immigrants into their classrooms. The ASV Migration Project: Middle School Educators’ Guide is a 12 lesson curriculum that was piloted …
