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Classroom Spotlight: Creating An Oral History Cookbook
Voice of Witness has collaborated with Ria Fay-Berquist, a humanities teacher at Latitude High School in Oakland, CA for the past three years as her students have moved up through the grades. This year, in …
2022 Workshop Series: Oral History Storytelling Skills and Ethics
Storytelling is a powerful method to advance justice, and an understanding of systemic oppression is incomplete without deep listening and learning from marginalized communities. Building on nearly 15 years of experience, Voice of Witness (VOW) …
Bringing Light to Climate Migration
Climate change is a human rights issue affecting more people every day. Drought, famine, floods, sea level rise, wildfires, biodiversity loss, and many other environmental changes will displace an estimated 200 million people by 2050. …
Join the Teach Truth Days of Action Campaign
Voice of Witness is partnering with the Zinn Education Project and other organizations to support educators, students, parents, and community members in rallying across the country and pledging to #TeachTruth on June 11 and 12, …
New Workshop: How Oral History Storytelling Can Support Ethical Fundraising
Join Voice of Witness for an online workshop on June 7 to learn about using ethics-driven storytelling practices in development work. Fundraisers know better than anyone the need to effectively illustrate the impact of a …
The 2022 Sharing History Initiative: Amplifying Unheard Voices
Apply for the 2022 Sharing History Initiative to amplify marginalized voices. The Sharing History Initiative introduces oral history and social justice storytelling to under-resourced classrooms and communities around the United States by providing educators, organizations, …
Intergenerational Storytelling with LA’s Koreatown Youth and Community Center
Voice of Witness recently provided consulting support to the Koreatown Youth and Community Center (KYCC) in Los Angeles. KYCC works to serve the evolving needs of the Korean American population of the greater Los Angeles …
Education Leadership Transitions at Voice of Witness
Voice of Witness is in the midst of planning for the transition of our longtime Education Program Director, Cliff Mayotte, who will be leaving VOW at the end of 2022. A constant source of light, …
