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What Happens When Philanthropy and Empathy Meet?
Voice of Witness Demonstrates the Unparalleled Power of Story to Catalyze Dialogue September 30, 2016 By Sophie Lee at The Whitman Institute This article was originally published by our good friends and long-time supporters at The …
Conference Season: VOW EDU Out and About
TEACHERS 4 SOCIAL JUSTICE CONFERENCE 2016 San Francisco, California Mission High School Saturday, Oct. 8, 2016 | 9:00am – 5:00pm Register for the conference here. Attending Teachers 4 Social Justice this year? Stop by the Voice of Witness …
Back on the Shelves! Stories from Undocumented Immigrants & People Inside the Criminal Justice System
We are pleased to announce that three of our most popular backlist titles—Underground America: Narratives of Undocumented Lives, Surviving Justice: America’s Wrongfully Convicted and Exonerated, and Inside This Place, Not of It: Narratives from Women’s Prisons—are now …
Meet the 2016-17 Germanacos Fellows for Sharing History
Last year, the VOW Education Program launched the Sharing History Initiative to support passionate and underfunded teachers, storytellers, and community leaders in bringing social justice-based storytelling into their communities. Today, we’re thrilled to announce that thanks to the …
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 …
Big news for the VOW Education Program
Introducing VOW’s new education associate, Erin Vong. Claire Kiefer to be VOW’s curriculum specialist. Expanding Our Team The summer has been a time of transition and opportunity for the VOW Education Program as we welcome our …
Sharing History 2016-17 Participants Announced
Excitement is in the air. The VOW education team has just notified 34 schools and organizations that they’ve been selected to be part of the 2016-17 Sharing History Initiative. The initiative provides educators, storytellers, and social …
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 …
