From May 2025 through March 2026, Voice of Witness hosted three cohorts of the Community Voices Initiative (CVI) course, a multiweek class designed for nonprofit professionals and community advocates to take a deep dive into oral history principles and conduct their own oral history interview. We are proud to now share For Lifetimes to Come, a selected collection of oral history narratives from the CVI community.
Thank you to all our CVI participants and narrators (those included in this collection and beyond) for being part of this project! We are grateful for your thoughtfulness, creativity, empathy, and hard work, and we are honored to be in community with you.
For questions about the CVI course and this collection, please contact Ela Banerjee at n.elabanerjee@gmail.com.
