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A Warm Welcome to Diana Cohn!
The Voice of Witness education team is excited to announce the newest member of our education advisory board, Diana Cohn. She will be joining current members Gerald Richards, Nishat Kurwa, Katie Kuszmar, Praveena Fernes, Rick Ayers, and …


Dec. 2: OakTechRep Performs Excerpts from Voices from the Storm
Arts Alliances: Real Time Collaboration Location: SoleSpace, 1714 Telegraph Ave., Oakland, CADate: December 2, 2015  |  7:30-9pm Come join OakTech Rep, Oakland Technical High School’s award winning theatre company, as they perform excerpts from their …


OakTechRep Presents: Voices from the Storm
Oakland Technical High School’s award-winning, critically acclaimed student company OakTech Rep will perform a theatrical adaptation of Voices from the Storm: The People of New Orleans on Hurricane Katrina and its Aftermath. The group will …


Notes on Studs Terkel
“Looking back I think he was kind of a soulful polymath—responding to humanity as he encountered it, in the studio, in the books.”    – George Drury on Studs Terkel On a recent summer day at the …


Wrongful Conviction Day: Narrator Spotlight on Beverly Monroe of Surviving Justice
Beverly Monroe is the epitome of southern gentility— gracious, warm, and impeccably mannered. She also has a degree in organic chemistry and three grown children. In 1992, she was wrongfully convicted of first-degree murder and …


Honoring Hispanic Heritage Month
A Narrator Shares His Hopes for What Activism and the Arts Will Do for His Hometown of Tehuacán Martín was raised in a family of activists in Tehuacán, Mexico. He has spent over twenty years …


Voice of Witness on KALW’s Your Call
  On Monday, August 24, Voice of Witness was featured on KALW’s Your Call, a call-in show hosted by Rose Aguilar that focuses on politics, culture, dialogue, and debate. Listeners had an opportunity to call in …


Launching Today: The Voice of Witness Sharing History Initiative
In celebration of ten years of amplifying unheard voices, we’ve launched the Sharing History Initiative. We are excited to announce that the Voice of Witness Education Program has just launched the Sharing History Initiative. This one-year national book …