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Amplifying Unheard Voices: Our Interns Reflect on VOW’s Annual Oral History Workshop
Editor’s Note: The blog series “I, Witness,” seeks to explore the ethics, challenges, and possibilities of teaching and conducting oral history. VOW summer 2016 interns Miriam Hwang-Carlos and Charlotte Edelstein. Photo courtesy of Lisa Anderson. …
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 …
The 2016 Sharing History Initiative is Open for Applications!
The 2016 Sharing History Initiative is officially underway!In service of our commitment to fostering storytelling in classrooms and communities around the United States, the Voice of Witness Education Program has just launched the second annual …
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 …
VOW Panel at the Bay Area Book Festival on Sunday, June 5, 2016
Amplifying Unheard Voices: Voice of Witness Editors on Social Justice Storytelling What: Panel & Discussion When: Sunday, June 5, 5:00 – 6:00 pm Where: Dharma College in Berkeley, CA Who: Ayelet Waldman, Mateo Hoke, and Robin S. Levi, moderated by Natalie Catasús …
High School Students Publish Book After Year-Long Voice of Witness Course
It’s a proud moment for the VOW Education Program. After over a year of rigorous oral history work, the students at Amos Alonzo Stagg High School in Palos Hills, Chicago have just published a book of stories …
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 …
